Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
355 federal appellate · 96 district · 660 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,450 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (1984), Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. (1990)
355 federal appellate · 96 district · 660 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 · Thornhill v. Alabama · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Stromberg v. People of State of California
Cited together with New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
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 1,450 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is simply impossible to believe that a reader who reached the word “blackmail” in either article would not have understood exactly what was meant: it was Bresler’s public and wholly legal negotiating proposals that were being criticized. No reader could have thought that either the speakers at the meetings or the newspaper articles reporting their words were charging Bresler with the commission of a criminal offense. On the contrary, even the most careless reader must have perceived that the word was no more than rhetorical hyperbole, a vigorous epithet used by those who considered Bresler’s negotiating position extremely unreasonable.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We must `make an independent examination of the whole record,' ... so as to assure ourselves that the judgment does not constitute a forbidden intrusion on the field of free expression.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may impair the unfettered exercise of . . . First Amendment freedoms.”
6 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.