Families Achieving Independence & Respect v. Nebraska Department of Social Services’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.3d 1408 · 1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Doe ex rel. Doe v. Pulaski County Special School District (2002), Bowman v. White (2006)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Roth v. United States · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n addition to time, place, and manner regulations, the State may reserve the forum for its intended purposes, communicative or otherwise, as long as the regulation on speech is reasonable and not an effort to suppress expression merely because public officials oppose the speaker's view.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n cases involving the First Amendment, appellate courts must make an independent examination of the whole record to ensure that its judgment does not constitute a forbidden intrusion on the field of free expression.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he First Amendment does not guarantee access to property simply because it is owned or controlled by the government .... As we have stated on several occasions, the State, no less than a private owner of property, has power to preserve the property under its control for the use to which it is lawfully dedicated.”
1 later decision 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.