Regan v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
272 federal appellate · 149 district · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 984 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Ward v. Rock Against Racism (1989)
272 federal appellate · 149 district · 166 state decisions — followed in 24 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 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 474 · 18 U.S.C. § 504 · 28 U.S.C. § 1252
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. O'Brien · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Griffin v. Breckenridge
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 984 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court should refrain from invalidating more of [a] statute than is necessary.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless it is evident that the Legislature would not have enacted those provisions which are within its power, independently of that which is not, the invalid part may be dropped if what is left is fully operative as a law.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Regulations which permit the Government to discriminate on the basis of the content of the message cannot be tolerated under the First Amendment.”
16 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.