64 Cal. 2d 235 - Weaver v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably 4 Cal. 3d 130 - Bixby v. Pierno (1971), 69 Cal. 2d 563 - In Re Giannini (1968)
16 federal appellate · 111 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 · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
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.
“is of unlimited potential scope and the enactment is so broad as to impose a complete ban of expression and communication through a specified medium, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Also encompassed [within the right of freedom of speech] are amusement and entertainment as well as the exposition of ideas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.