Connection Distributing Co. v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.3d 281 · 1998
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Overstreet v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (2002), Deja Vu of Nashville, Inc. v. The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (2001)
45 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2256 · 18 U.S.C. § 2257
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Singleton v. Wulff · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Miller v. California
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a party seeks a preliminary injunction on the basis of a potential violation of the First Amendment, the likelihood of success on the merits often will be the determinative factor”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is always in the public interest to prevent violation of a party's constitutional rights.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The district court's determination will be disturbed only if the district court relied upon clearly erroneous findings of fact, improperly applied the governing law, or used an erroneous legal standard.'”
3 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.