Fulani v. Bentsen’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 49 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Houbigant, Inc. v. ACB Mercantile, Inc. (1996), Becker v. Federal Election Commission (2000)
9 federal appellate · 4 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.
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Allen v. Wright · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Flast v. Cohen · Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the Democratic presidential nomination under the League's selection criteria. By letter to Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady dated February 4, 1992, Fulani demanded that the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service, no later than 5:00 p.m. the next day, provide Fulani with notice that they would either (1) cause the League to include Fulani in the Debate, or (2) suspend (or revoke) the League's tax exemption forthwith. As Fulani's letter noted, suspension or revocation would”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fulani v. Bentsen“) appeal from a judgment entered February 3, 1993 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Robert W. Sweet, Judge, that dismissed Fulani's amended complaint, and from an order entered June 29, 1993 in that court which denied Fulani's motions for reargument and to amend the judgment. See Fulani v. Brady, 809 F.Supp. 1112 (S.D.N.Y.1993) (opinion supporting judgment) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fulani v. Bentsen“without in any way denigrating [the] valuable contribution of the League, we are persuaded ... that in many instances a broadcaster may be the ideal, and perhaps the only, entity interested in promoting a debate between candidates for a particular office, especially at the state or local level.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fulani v. Bentsen
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.