American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Las Vegas’s Empirical Analysis
333 F.3d 1092 · 2003
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 26 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Santa Monica Food Not Bombs v. City of Santa Monica (2006), Fonseca v. Sysco Food Services of Arizona, Inc. (2004)
31 federal appellate · 26 district · 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the actual use and purposes of the property, particularly status as a public thoroughfare and availability of free public access to the area, (2) the area’s physical characteristics, including its location and the existence of clear boundaries delimiting the area, and (3) traditional or historical use of both the property in question and other similar properties.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public, and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. 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 · Galvin v. R“No particularized inquiry into the precise nature of a specific street is necessary; all public streets are held in the public trust and are properly considered traditional public fora.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. 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 · Menotti
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.