Meaney v. Dever’s Empirical Analysis
326 F.3d 283 · 2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2022
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Texas v. Johnson · Waters v. Churchill · Spence v. State of Washington
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Horn blowing] is not an expressive act a fortiori, and thus does not implicate the First Amendment unless context establishes it as such.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Porter v. Gore · State v. Immelt“In evaluating whether allegedly expressive conduct brings the First Amendment into play, the Supreme Court has focused on the context in which the conduct took place, asking 'whether an intent to convey a particularized message was present, and [whether] the likelihood was great that the message would be understood by those who [perceived] it.'”
1 later decision 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.