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Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
3
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

6 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Sammartano, S.O.C., Inc. v. Mirage Casino-Hotel (2001)

6 district · 3 state decisions

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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 Elrod v. Burns · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[b]ecause the ACLUN's claims `are rooted in the First Amendment' the ACLUN has standing to challenge the impact of the Clark County ordinance as it relates to its own expressive activities, as well as those of others.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 481 F. Supp. 2d 1122 - SOC, Inc. v. COUNTY OF CLARK, NEV.
  2. “the distribution of a newspaper that stresses social, political, and environmental issues if the paper's production costs were covered by revenue generated from advertisements”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 481 F. Supp. 2d 1122 - SOC, Inc. v. COUNTY OF CLARK, NEV.
  3. “[c]ontent-based regulations [to] pass constitutional muster only if they are the least restrictive means to further a compelling interest.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Porter v. Gore

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.