McCright v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Miller v. California · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Wisconsin v. Constantineau · Zwickler v. Koota
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To permit the Attorney General to prevent theater operation on the basis of the applicant being an ‘improper person’, or ‘for any other reason it is an improper place’, would be to allow him to arbitrarily exercise his power devoid of ascertainable standards to be applied in a determination of the meaning of ‘improper’. “License refusal or revocation based on such ‘standards’ presents a clear possibility of overbroad application of the statute to activities protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.” at 944.”
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.