Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
509 federal appellate · 241 district · 476 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,016 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
509 federal appellate · 241 district · 476 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Salerno · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Dombrowski v. Pfister
Cited together with Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. · Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota
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 2,016 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Internet is an international network of interconnected computers,”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“is 'readily susceptible' to such a construction.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Landry · Jane Doe v. Landry
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.