Granite State Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. City of St. Petersburg’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.3d 1278 · 2003
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Solantic, LLC v. City of Neptune Beach (2005), Granite State Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. City of Clearwater (2003)
19 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Farrar v. Hobby · Fw/pbs Inc II v. City of Dallas Mjr Inc · Freedman v. Maryland
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“found the remaining text to be constitutionally sound”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In particular, ... the Court never stated time limits were per se required for a [content-neutral] permitting scheme to be valid. Rather, the Court simply held all that was required were `adequate standards to guide the official's discretion and render it subject to judicial review.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court found the absence of time limits required it to grant summary judgment for Granite and invalidate the entire ordinance.”
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.