Fw/pbs Inc II v. City of Dallas Mjr Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1,018 federal appellate · 482 district · 253 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,576 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992), Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc (2000)
1,018 federal appellate · 482 district · 253 state decisions — followed in 33 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1461
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Warth v. Seldin · Allen v. Wright · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.
Cited together with Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Freedman v. Maryland · Allen v. Wright · Warth v. Seldin · City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
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 3,576 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The federal courts are under an independent obligation to examine their own jurisdiction, and standing 'is perhaps the most important of [the jurisdictional] doctrines.'”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) any restraint prior to judicial review can be imposed only for a specified brief period during which the status quo must be maintained; (2) expeditious judicial review of that decision must be available; and (3) the censor must bear the burden of going to court to suppress the speech and must bear the burden of proof once in court.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the possibility of prompt judicial review”
25 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.