Terry v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.3d 1412 · 1996
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States of America, v. Microsoft Corporation, (2001), United States v. Rahman (1999)
60 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 248 (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B · 42 U.S.C. § 3631
Relies on Hishon v. King & Spalding · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien · Carnegie v. United States
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [i] if it furthers an important or substantial governmental interest; [ii] if the governmental interest is unrelated to the suppression of free expression; and [iii] if the incidental restriction on alleged First Amendment freedoms is no greater than is essential to the furtherance of that interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Access Act thus does not play favorites: it protects from violent or obstructive activity not only abortion clinics, but facilities providing pre-pregnancy and pregnancy counseling services, as well as facilities counseling alternatives to abortion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court [s] must defer to a congressional finding that a regulated activity affects interstate commerce, if there is any rational basis for such a finding.”
2 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.