In re Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Gentile v. State Bar of Nev. (1991), Cohen v. Hurley (1961)
12 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 United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Theard v. United States · Ex parte Garland · McAuliffe v. Mayor and Board of Aldermen · Beilan v. Board of Public Education School District of Philadelphia
Most-quoted passages
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“208. Courts weigh 'the State's interest in the regulation of a specialized profession against a lawyer's First Amendment interest in the kind of speech that was at issue.' Gentile, 501 U.S. at 1073 . 'Appellant as a citizen could not be denied any of the common rights of citizens. But he stood before the inquiry and before the Appellate Division in another quite different capacity, also. As a lawyer he was an "officer of the court, and, like the court itself, an instrument . . . of justice . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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