United States v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 952 · 1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 112 · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 42 U.S.C. § 3602 (§ 802 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3631
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Kolender v. Lawson · Screws v. United States · Texas v. Johnson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, instead of burning a cross ... the defendant had distributed leaflets ... stating that the Ku Klux Klan was in the neighborhood, disliked black people, and wanted them to move out, the black residents ... could well have been threatened or intimidated in the sense allowed by the District Court’s instructions to the jury in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any inhabitant of any State, Territory, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Lee“I suggest that a great deal of speech is sufficiently forceful or offensive to inhibit the free action or persons against whom it is directed, in the sense that it would make someone hesitate before acting in a certain way. Indeed, that is the very purpose of speech: to influence others’ conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.