Docket No. 01-7941’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025
1 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 Rattner v. Netburn · X-Men Security, Inc. v. Pataki · Hammerhead Enterprises, Inc. v. Brezenoff · 150 F. Supp. 2d 508 - Okwedy v. Molinari
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The billboard company] owns a number of billboards on Staten Island and derives substantial economic benefits from them. I call on you as a responsible member of the business community to please contact Daniel L. Master, my legal counsel and Chair of my Anti-Bias Task Force ... to discuss further the issues I have raised in this letter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nder certain circumstances, oral or written statements made by public officials will require courts to draw fine lines between permissible expressions of personal opinion and implied threats to employ coercive state power to stifle protected speech.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“crossed the line 'between attempts to convince and attempts to coerce.'”
2 later decisions 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.