Mason v. Florida Bar’s Empirical Analysis
208 F.3d 952 · 2000
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Sherri Williams Bailey v. Bill Pryor (2001), Artistic Entertainment Inc Stephen Dewberry v. City of Warner Robins Donald Walker (2000)
8 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Arnett v. Kennedy · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not satisfied by mere speculation or conjecture; rather, a governmental body seeking to sustain a restriction on commercial speech must demonstrate that the harms it recites are real and that its restriction will in fact alleviate them to a material degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Borgner v. Brooks“there is no evidence that the consumers ... are misled if they do not inform themselves of the precise standards under which claims of certification are allowed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Borgner v. Brooks“demonstrate that the restrictions it places on speech target an identifiable harm and mitigate against such harm in a direct and effective manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Borgner v. Brooks
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.