Comfort v. MacLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. · United States v. Grace · United States v. Kokinda · A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. · Huminski v. Corsones
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is also black-letter law that, when the government permits speech on government property that is a nonpublic forum, it can exclude speakers on the basis of their subject matter, so long as the distinctions drawn are viewpoint neutral and reasonable in light of the purpose served by the forum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schmidter v. State
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.