State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2011
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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cohen v. California · Coates v. City of Cincinnati · Terminiello v. Chicago · Gooding v. Wilson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our decisions establish that mere public intolerance or animosity cannot be the basis for abridgement of these constitutional freedoms.... The First and Fourteenth Amendments do not permit a State to make criminal the exercise of the right of assembly simply because its exercise may be "annoying" to some people. If this were not the rule, the right of the people to gather in public places for social or political purposes would be continually subject to summary suspension through the good-faith enforcement of a prohibition against annoying conduct. And such a prohibition, in addition, contains an obvious invitation to discriminatory enforcement against those whose association together is "annoying" because their ideas, their lifestyle, or their physical appearance is resented by the majority of their fellow citizens. (footnotes and citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“challenges another to fight or engages in fighting other than in self-defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dawson v. State
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.