Gay Students Organization of the University of New Hampshire v. Thomas N. Bonner, Individually and as President of the University of New Hampshire, Gay Students Organization of the University of New Hampshire v. Meldrim Thomson, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 652 · 1974
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 458 - Gay Law Students Ass'n v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1979), 22 Cal. 3d 584 - Hawkins v. Superior Court (1978)
35 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 state decisions
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 Monroe v. Pape · United States v. O'Brien · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'undifferentiated fear or apprehension' of illegal conduct ... is not enough to overcome First Amendment rights, and speculation that individuals might at some time engage in illegal activity is insufficient to justify regulation by the state.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Once a situs is designated a public forum, the power of government to restrict expression therein is extremely circumscribed. The paramount principal is that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content. Thus, once a forum is opened up to assembly or speaking by some groups, government may not prohibit others from assembling or speaking on the basis of what they intend to say. . . . [Reasonable regulations controlling the “time, place and manner” of expression in a public forum are permissible. . . . However, the regulations must be in furtherance of a substantial governmental interest that has no relation to the First Amendment activity involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“But here the action was brought, not against the University or its Board of Trustees as a body, but against a number of the University's officials (, including) Governor Thomson, an ex officio member of the Board; and the other members of the Board, including Dunlop, the Chairman. These persons were originally sued both individually and in their official capacities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Walsh
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.