Walker v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 3 · 1975
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Ludwig v. Massachusetts (1976), Commonwealth v. a Juvenile (1975)
13 federal appellate · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Parker v. Levy · Cohen v. California
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“curse or abuse anyone, or use vulgar, profane, threatening or indecent language”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e start from the proposition that the state has a legitimate interest in prohibiting obscene, threatening, and harassing phone calls, none of which are generally thought of as protected by the First Amendment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Carpenter
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.