In re Frazer’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 45 state decisions

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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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has been customary from time immemorial, in all free countries, and in most civilized countries, for people who are assembled for common purposes to parade together, by day or reasonable hours at night, with banners and other paraphernalia, and with music of various kinds. These processions for political, religious and social demonstrations are resorted to for the express purpose of keeping up unity of feeling and enthusiasm, and frequently to produce some effect on the public mind by the spectacle of union and numbers. They are a natural product and exponent of common aims, and valuable factors in furthering them. They are only found to any appreciable extent in places having collected inhabitants, for spectators are generally as important as members. They are among the incidental conditions of city life, and are as much to be expected, on suitable occasions, as any other public meetings, and not necessarily any more dangerous.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Bigelow v. Spiegel · Shields v. State

2. ““ It is not unusual to confine noisy doings to such hours' of the day and night as will not grossly disturb the quiet rest of sleep. It has been held, with reason, that a moving crowd may be less obnoxious than a stationary one; and this was said, in substance, when a defendant, who drew crowds to his windows by libelous pictures, and thereby blocked up a highway, undertook to justify himself by the processions of the judges and lord mayor. The remarks of Mr. Justice Park on the subject of crowds which may or may not be nuisances, in Rex v. Carlile, 6 Car. & P. 636, are quite instructive on this head.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Love v. Judge of Recorder's Court of Detroit

3. ““No person or persons, association or organizations, shall march, parade, ride, or drive in or upon or through •the public streets of the city of Grand Eapids, with musical instruments, banners, flags, torches, flambeaus, or while singing or shouting, without having .first obtained the consent of the mayor or common council of said city,”—”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Armstrong