Frisby v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
767 federal appellate · 264 district · 429 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,214 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Ward v. Rock Against Racism (1989), Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey (1992)
767 federal appellate · 264 district · 429 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSchultz v. Frisby (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 2103 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent
Cited together with Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Carey v. Brown
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 2,214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State's interest in protecting the well-being, tranquility, and privacy of the home is certainly of the highest order in a free and civilized society.”
97 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the archetype of a traditional public forum.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest, and leave open ample alternative channels of communication.”
29 later decisions 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.