Collin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 1197 · 1978
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Smith v. Collin (1978), Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et L'Antisemitisme (2006)
72 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that the [insurance] requirement does not turn on the content of a proposed demonstration, except in the sense that controversial groups will likely be unable to obtain insurance, as here. (That several less controversial groups were able to do so, of course, proves nothing.) But it is most assuredly not facially neutral towards First Amendment activity, which is what [United States v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367 , 88 S.Ct. 1673 , 20 L.Ed.2d 672 (1968)] requires.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The result we have reached is dictated by the fundamental proposition that if these civil rights are to remain vital for all, they must protect not only those society deems acceptable, but also those whose ideas it quite justifiably rejects and despises.” 578 F.2d at 1210 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an invasion, intensely menacing no matter how peacefully conducted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schultz v. Frisby · Collin v. Smith
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.