People v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2000
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Beene v. State · People ex rel. Hughes v. Appleton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Judges are often compelled to endure the sting of misrepresentation and calumny ... but it is wisely considered better that these wrongs and injuries should be tolerated, than that the sacred liberty of speech, printed or spoken, should be abridged by lodging an arbitrary power to interfere therewith in the hands of the court or judge....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Green“so far as this liberty of speech in connection with judicial action is concerned, [an attorney's] official character in no way affects him; ... for such acts he will be answerable only as other citizens are.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Green“assaults, verbal or physical, upon the judge in person,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Green
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.