Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
798 federal appellate · 183 district · 1,297 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,312 later decisions (118 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Smith v. Phillips (1982), Honig v. Doe (1988)
798 federal appellate · 183 district · 1,297 state decisions — followed in 46 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Hanson v. Denckla · Jackson v. Denno · Buckley v. Valeo
Cited together with Sheppard v. Maxwell · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Gannett Co Inc v. A · Irvin v. Dowd · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 3,312 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights.”
164 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f we decline to address the issues in this case on grounds of mootness, the dispute will evade review, or at least considered plenary review in this Court[.]”
26 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.