Collin v. Chicago Park District’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 746 · 1972
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably United States v. Dellinger (1972), 19 Cal. 3d 294 - Kash Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (1977)
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Thornhill v. Alabama
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any system of prior restraint ... “comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity.” The presumption against pri- or restraints is heavier — and the degree of protection broader — than that against limits on expression imposed by criminal penalties. Behind the distinction is a theory deeply etched in our law: a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse rights of speech after they break the law than to throttle them and all others beforehand. It is always difficult to know in advance what an individual will say, and the line between legitimate and illegitimate speech is so finely drawn that the'risks of freewheeling censorship are formidable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Starting with Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 , 69 S. Ct. 894 , 93 L. Ed. 1131 (1949), and continuing to Gregory v. City of Chicago, 394 U.S. 111 , 89 S. Ct. 946 , 22 L. Ed. 134 (1969), it has become patent that a hostile audience is not a basis for restraining otherwise legal First Amendment activity. As with many of the cases cited herein, if the actual behavior is not sufficient to sustain a conviction under a statute, then certainly the anticipation of such events cannot sustain the burden necessary to justify a prior restraint.” Collin v. Chicago Park District (7th Cir. 1972), 460 F.2d 746, 754 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Despite dissenting opinions now and then in particular contexts, the pillar of recognition [of the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly] has remained staunchly resistant to chipping efforts emanating from a distaste for the words spoken or desired to be spoken or because of the purpose or ideology of the group assembling or proposing to assemble.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.