18 F. Supp. 2d 1127 - Black v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2014
6 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · United States v. O'Brien · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... an unincorporated, loosely-structured group that regularly gathers in undeveloped sites in National Forests to pray for peace, discuss environmental and other contemporary political and social issues, and [to] exchange, develop, express, and demonstrate their ideas and views. Annual gatherings have occurred in different National Forests on and around July 4 since 1972. These gatherings draw more than 20,000 participants and last for a month or more. Smaller regional gatherings take place throughout the year in National Forests across the country.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pray for peace, discuss environmental and other contemporary political and social issues, and [to] exchange, develop[,] express and demonstrate their ideas and views.”
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.