City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
571 federal appellate · 221 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,533 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Edenfield v. Fane (1993), 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996)
571 federal appellate · 221 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedDiscovery Network, Inc. v. City of Cincinnati (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
Cited together with Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Board of Trustees of State Univ. of NY v. Fox · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego
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 1,533 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“carefully calculated the costs and benefits associated with the burden on speech imposed by its prohibition.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“necessarily perfect, but reasonable; that represents not necessarily the single best disposition but one whose scope is in proportion to the interest served, ... that employs not necessarily the least restrictive means but, as we have put it in the other contexts ..., a means narrowly tailored to achieve the desired objective.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there are numerous and obvious less-burdensome alternatives to the restriction on ... speech, that is certainly a relevant consideration in determining whether the 'fit' between ends and means is reasonable.”
19 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.