Arkansas Writers' Project, Inc. v. Ragland’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 83 district · 221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 886 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota (1992), Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1994)
228 federal appellate · 83 district · 221 state decisions — followed in 28 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 20 U.S.C. § 76n · 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 47 U.S.C. § 396
Relies on Neil v. Biggers · Connick v. Myers · Buckley v. Valeo · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 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 886 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even where, as here, there is no evidence of an improper censorial motive ... selective taxation of the press--either singling out the press as a whole or targeting individual members of the press--poses a particular danger of abuse by the State.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessary to serve a compelling state interest”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“the State must show that its regulation is necessary to serve a compelling state interest and is narrowly drawn to achieve that end.”
13 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.