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6 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 175 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Watts v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watts v. United States Anchor | green | “if they ever make me carry a rifle the first man i want to get in my sights is l.b.j.” | 53 |
| 2 | Virginia v. Black | green | “true threats' encompass those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals.” | 46 |
| 3 | Virginia v. Black | green | “intimidation in the constitutionally proscribable sense of the word is a type of true threat, where a speaker directs a threat to a person or group of persons with the intent of placing the victim in fear of bodily harm or death.” | 28 |
| 4 | Virginia v. Black | green | “from the possibility that the threatened violence will occur.” | 23 |
| 5 | Watts v. United States | green | “a kind of very crude offensive method of stating a political opposition to the president.” | 20 |
| 6 | United States v. Bly | green | “whether a written communication contains either constitutionally protected 'political hyperbole' or an unprotected 'true threat' is a question of law and fact that we review de novo.” | 5 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.