Village of Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better Environment’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
608 federal appellate · 244 district · 300 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,827 later decisions (98 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2026 · most notably New York v. Ferber (1982), Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)
608 federal appellate · 244 district · 300 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCitizens for a Better Environment v. Village of Schaumburg (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
Cited together with Secretary of State of Maryland v. Joseph H Munson Company Inc · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Riley v. National Federation of Blind of North Carolina, Inc. · Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc.
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 1,827 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“communication of information ...[is] within the protection of the First Amendment.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'narrowly drawn regulations designed to serve [that] interest[ ] without unnecessarily interfering with First Amendment freedoms.'”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“solicitation is characteristically intertwined with informative and perhaps persuasive speech seeking support for particular causes or for particular views on economic, political, or social issues, and ... without solicitation the flow of such information and advocacy would likely cease.”
15 later decisions 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.