Sammartano’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
34 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 434 F. Supp. 2d 913 - Saini v. International Game Technology (2006), 295 F. Supp. 2d 1188 - Pacific Aerospace & Electronics, Inc. v. Taylor (2003)
34 district · 2 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 Younger v. Harris · Elrod v. Burns · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“primarily addresses impact on non-parties rather than parties.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] party seeking preliminary injunctive relief in a First Amendment context can establish irreparable injury sufficient to merit the grant of relief by demonstrating the existence of a colorable First Amendment claim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.