Ahmad v. Levi’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1994
4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 47 U.S.C. § 315
Relies on Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · Romano v. United States · Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee · Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The choice of material to go into a newspaper, and the decisions made as to limitations on the size and content of the paper, and treatment of public issues and public officials — whether fair or unfair — constitute the exercise of editorial control and judgment. It has yet to be demonstrated how governmental regulation of this crucial process can be exercised consistent with First Amendment guarantees of a free press. . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A party who is not represented by an attorney shall sign his pleading and state his address. If a pleading is not signed . . . , it may be stricken as sham and false and the action may proceed as though the pleading had not been served.””
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.