Deeds v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Smith v. Goguen (1974), Parent v. State (1981)
2 federal appellate · 21 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
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Roth v. United States · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who shall within this State, publicly or privately, mutilate, deface, defile, defy, tramp upon, or cast contempt upon, either by word or act any flag, standard, color, or ensign of the United States, or that of any of its officers, or on any imitation of either of them, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than twenty-five years.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jones v. Wade · Delorme v. State““Article 152 is directed toward prohibiting the nonspeech aspect of flag desecration. While it incidently limits expression, it leaves appellant free to express his views in an alternate form, (citations omitted). Conduct, not speech, is prohibited by the statute, and the prohibition applies equally regardless of the political views of the person engaging in such acts, (citations omitted).” 474 S.W.2d at 721.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“"The emotions of the people of this nation are so integrally linked to this symbol that its desecration in public is an invitation to violence, not because of the ideas allegedly symbolized by such act but because of the nature of the act itself."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Farrell
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.