Commonwealth v. Bricker’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 13 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 700 (Enhanced Federal Security Act of 2000)
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · Texas v. Johnson · Thomas v. Collins · Sloan v. Hicks
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ome might argue that there are few forms of self-expression as personal and important as the manner in which we decorate our homes. . . . [T]he government must satisfy constitutional scrutiny before it can tell the citizens of this Commonwealth what pictures they may hang on their walls or what symbols they may display in the sanctity of their homes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lupo“We hold open the possibility that there are narrow categories in which the flag is used in a non-expressive manner and, in this regard, the ’ United States Supreme Court' agrees.”). . Judge Yeary’s dissenting opinion contends that this conclusion is not a proper consideration in an overbreadth analysis because the doctrine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States.”
1 later decision 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.