Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
131 federal appellate · 57 district · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 564 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co. (1988), Waters v. Churchill (1994)
131 federal appellate · 57 district · 182 state decisions — followed in 22 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
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Branzburg v. Hayes
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 564 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a statute based on a nonexpressive activity has the inevitable effect of singling out those engaged in expressive activity,”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First Amendment values may not be invoked by merely linking the works `sex' and `books'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If *** a cjfy were to use a nuisance statute as a pretext for closing down a bookstore because it sold indecent books or because of the perceived secondary effects of having a purveyor of such books in the neighborhood, the case would clearly implicate First Amendment concerns and require analysis under the appropriate First Amendment standard of review.” Arcara, 478 U.S. at 708 , 92 L. Ed. 2d at 579 , 106 S. Ct. at 31078 (O’Connor, J., concurring).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.