Schultz v. Frisby’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 6 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2015
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Younger v. Harris · Steffel v. Thompson · Frisby v. Schultz · Carey v. Brown · Schultz v. Frisby
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.
“We appreciate the Plaintiffs concern that it is hard to tell when picketing is “directed at” a particular home. Will it be enough to go around and around the block? Could the picketers march in front of five houses on either side of the Victoria’s? Make a stop for one minute, or two, or five, in front of the Victoria’s place before moving on? Surely they can’t evade the law by standing in front of the Victoria’s home and occasionally jumping one house on either side. How much longer must the route be? No matter how clear the ordinance seems, 100 nice questions may follow its wake.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No matter how clear the ordinance seems, a hundred nice questions may follow in its wake. The Constitution does not require [the town] to answer each of these before it may enforce the law. Incompleteness is a curse of language, as of human imagination. To say that precision is a precondition to enforcement is to say that no ordinance regulating speech may stand — a proposition the Supreme Court has rejected over and again.”
3 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.