Wurtz v. Risley’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 1438 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably McCalden v. California Library Ass'n (1990), United States v. Velasquez (1985)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 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 · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · New York v. Ferber · Speiser v. Randall · United States v. James Griggs Raines
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" Intimidation. (1) A person commits the offense of intimidation when, with the purpose to cause another to perform or to omit the performance of any act, he communicates to another a threat to perform without lawful authority any of the following acts: "... "(c) commit any criminal offense."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cleland · State v. Musser“a reasonable tendency to produce in the victim a fear that the threat will be carried out.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he statutory language applies so broadly [1] to threats of minor infractions, [2] to threats not reasonably likely to induce a belief that they will be carried out, and [3] to threats unrelated to any induced or threatened action, that a great deal of protected speech is brought within the statute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.