Charles Close v. John W. Lederle’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 988 · 1970
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Richards v. Thurston (1970), Piarowski v. Illinois Community College District 515 (1985)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Ginsberg v. New York · Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · Redrup v. State of New York
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there was, in effect, a captive audience, defendants had a right to afford protection against “assault upon individual privacy,” see Redrup v. New York”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.