Eugene Ruocchio’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “Every member of any labor organization shall have the right to meet and assemble freely with other members; and to express any views, arguments, or opinions, and to express at meetings of the labor organization his views, upon candidates in an election of the labor organization or upon any business properly before the meeting, subject to the organization’s established and reasonable rules pertaining to the conduct of meetings: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to impair the right of a labor organization to adopt and enforce rules as to the responsibility of every member toward the organization as an institution and to his refraining from conduct that would interfere with its performance of its legal or contractual obligations.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 156 F. Supp. 2d 172 - Milne v. International Ass'n of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local 15 · Joseph Kofoed v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

2. “courts have been expansive in their view of a litigant’s standing to bring legal action in situations in which free-speech rights are implicated. Cases addressing issues of standing in the free speech labor context ... have recognized that limitations on free speech rights can result in a ‘chilling effect’ on others’ exercise of those rights, and have taken a broad view of standing based on this prospect. “Litigants, therefore, are permitted to challenge a statute not because their own rights of free expression are violated, but because of a judicial prediction or assumption that the statute’s very existence may cause others not before the Court to refrain from constitutionally protected speech or expression.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 114 F. Supp. 2d 204 - Legal Aid Society v. City of New York

3. “[T]he issue is...whether the decision of the dispute continues to be justified by sufficient prospect that it will have impact on the parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jazz Pharm., Inc. v. Synchrony Grp., LLC