Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
420 federal appellate · 122 district · 372 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,541 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota (1992), Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1994)
420 federal appellate · 122 district · 372 state decisions — followed in 37 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
reviewedGlen Theatre, Inc. v. Pearson (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. O'Brien · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Roth v. United States
Cited together with United States v. O'Brien · City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. · City of Erie v. Pap's A. M. · Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. · Ward v. Rock Against Racism
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 1,541 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The traditional police power of the States is defined as the authority to provide for the public health, safety, and morals.”
110 later decisions quote this exact passage“expressive conduct within the outer perimeters of the First Amendment,”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“legislation seeking to combat the secondary effects of adult entertainment need not await localized proof of those effects”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.