Krahm v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
461 F.2d 703 · 1972
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 84 Wash. 2d 239 - King v. City of Seattle (1974), 42 Cal. 3d 1101 - Sundance v. Municipal Court (1986)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Cannon v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Surely the damage from this sort of activity is both irreparable and “great and immediate. ” It can put the plaintiffs out of business without ever convicting any of them of anything. Nor can the threat to plaintiffs’ first amendment rights be eliminated by defense against the state prosecutions. Successful defense against eleven of them, plus the voluntary dismissal of two others, brought the filing of fourteen more, and later of an additional nineteen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“anti-pornography campaign ... spearheaded by the mayor, [one of the three defendants in the federal suit,] with announcements on television and to the newspapers.”
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.