Cooper v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.3d 1208 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably CAMP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. v. City of Atlanta (2006), Leonard v. Robinson (2007)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. Creighton · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We note that while the statute is appropriately limited to participants, see Landmark Communications, Inc., 435 U.S. at 837 & n. 10, 98 S.Ct. 1535 , applicable only to information gleaned pursuant to the investigation, see Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart, 467 U.S. 20, 34 , 104 S.Ct. 2199 , 81 L.Ed.2d 17 (1984), and lasts for a presumptively definite duration, see Butterworth v. Smith, 494 U.S. 624, 632 , 110 S.Ct. 1376 , 108 L.Ed.2d 572 (1990), there is some question as to whether the statute is narrowly tailored because it may permit an indefinite ban on disclosure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Speech on matters of public concern is at the heart of the First Amendment’s protection. The First Amendment reflects a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open. That is because speech concerning public affairs is more than self-expression; it is the essence of self-government. Accordingly, speech on public issues occupies the highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values, and is entitled to special protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Because the statute’s unconstitutionality was not clearly established prior to its enforcement, Dillon is entitled to qualified immunity.... However, as a municipal officer with firm policymaking authority as to law enforcement matters, Dillon did expose the City of Key West to § 1983 liability by choosing to enforce the statute against Cooper.”
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.