Florida Right to Life Inc v. Lawson Lamar Valerie Crotty Florida Right to Life Political Action Committee’s Empirical Analysis
273 F.3d 1318 · 2001
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Solantic, LLC v. City of Neptune Beach (2005), Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana of Boca Raton, Inc. v. Broward County (2006)
15 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Weinstein v. Bradford · Golden v. Zwickler · Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · Wooden v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition yet evading review”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“uphold a state statute against a facial challenge if the statute is readily susceptible to a narrowing construction that avoids constitutional infirmities. We 'will not, however, rewrite the clear terms of a statute in order to reject a facial challenge,' and, as a federal court, ‘we must be particularly reluctant to rewrite the terms of a state statute.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]andidates ... may not ... make contributions to any religious, charitable, civic, or other causes or organizations established primarily for the public good” save for three limited exceptions, effectively prohibited political candidates from making”
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.