State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2018
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Roth v. United States · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · State v. Smith · State v. Becker
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Joint Statement of Uncontroverted Material Facts.” 2 . The City's position is that the object at issue is a "sign,” while Sanctuary refers to the object as a "mural.” 3 . Missouri courts have not decided " 'whether the circumference of Mo. Const. art. I, § 8 is identical to that of the First Amendment in all instances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“That no law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech, no matter by what means communicated: that every person shall be free to say, write or publish, or otherwise communicate whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuses of that liberty;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right of free speech is not an absolute right at all times and under all circumstances. The right of freedom of speech is subject to the state’s right to exercise its inherent police power. (Emphasis added.)”
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.