Douglas Giebel v. Stephen Sylvester Mt’s Empirical Analysis
244 F.3d 1182 · 2001
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Robert Devereaux v. Timothy David Abbey (2001), Moss v. U.S. Secret Service (2009)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Wilson v. Layne · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. · Behrens v. Pelletier
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Content discrimination occurs when the government chooses the subjects that may be discussed, while viewpoint discrimination occurs when the government prohibits speech by particular speakers, thereby suppressing a particular view about a subject.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Son Of Confederate Veterans v. Commissioner Of The Virginia Department Of Motor Vehicles · Victor Menotti Thomas Sellman Todd Stedl Doug Skove v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle Sharon Stevens, a Seattle Police Detective Ronald Smith, a Seattle Police Officer, Kenneth Hankin Jennifer Hudziec Stephanie Lane Denise Cooper Nicole Pearson on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Seattle Paul Schell, Former Mayor of the City of Seattle Norman Stamper, Former Chief of Police of the City of Seattle“the level at which `subject matter' is defined can control whether discrimination is held to be on the basis of content or viewpoint,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Precedent directly on point is not necessary to demonstrate that a right is clearly established.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.