Arnold E. Strasser v. Joseph A. Doorley, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 567 · 1970
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Alan L. Baldwin and George Q. Cannon, Jr. v. Redwood City, Alan L. Baldwin and George Q. Cannon, Jr. v. Redwood City (1976), Wulp v. Corcoran (1972)
13 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 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 United States v. O'Brien · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Thornhill v. Alabama · Zwickler v. Koota
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“- We recognize that the acceptance of amicus briefs is within the sound discretion of the court, and that by the nature of things an amicus is not normally impartial. Furthermore, if an amicus causes the district court to- make an error of law — an amicus who argues facts should rarely be welcomed — the error can be corrected on appeal. Nonetheless, we believe a district court lacking joint consent of the parties should go slow in accepting, and even slower in inviting, an amicus brief unless, as a party, although short of a right to intervene, the amicus has a special interest that justifies his having a say, or unless the court feels that existing counsel may need supplementing assistance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the face of these burdens upon the exercise of first amendment rights, defendants point to no governmental interest of any importance that would be served by registration and identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As an attorney of our acquaintance once told the court, when asked for his response to the argument of the amicus, “That fellow isn’t any more a friend of the court than I am.””
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.