Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding statute unconstitutional as applied because act of flag burning was clearly “speech” contemplated by the First Amendment
• holding the flag burning statute unconstitutional as-applied, reversing the judgments of the lower courts, and remanding to the trial court for dismissal of the information

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Texas v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-21· cited 1,671×
• Ieppert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-11· cited 130×
• Faust v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-09· cited 39×
• Urbano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1988-10-27· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1998-03-25· cited 8×
• Jimmy Lee Pinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2004-07-29
• Marroquin, Ramon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-09
• Ramon Marroquin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-12-09
• OWENS, KEVIN J. v. the State of Texas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2025-06-04

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. O'Brien
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-27· cited 3,604×
• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
  Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 3,241×
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-14· cited 2,477×
• Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 1,862×
• Smith v. Goguen
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 1,514×
• Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 1,260×
• Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego
  Supreme Court· 1981-07-02· cited 1,213×
• Boos v. Barry
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-22· cited 1,104×
• Adderley v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1966-11-14· cited 876×
• Spence v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 802×
• Street v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-21· cited 632×
• McCambridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-14· cited 309×
• Halter v. Nebraska
  Supreme Court· 1907-03-04· cited 155×
• Briggs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-25· cited 105×
• Delorme v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-01-10· cited 66×
• Deeds v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-11-09· cited 33×
• Diane Monroe v. State Court of Fulton County, James Webb, Solicitor of Fulton County, and Michael Bowers, Attorney General of Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-08-20· cited 31×
• State v. Van Camp
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1971-05-14· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Goguen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-02-02· cited 9×