City of Erie v. Pap's A. M.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
481 federal appellate · 228 district · 308 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,715 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly (2001), City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc. (2002)
481 federal appellate · 228 district · 308 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. O'Brien · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Powell v. McCormack
Cited together with City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. · United States v. O'Brien · Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. · City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc. · Ward v. Rock Against Racism
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 1,715 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within the outer ambit of the First Amendment's protection.”
81 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A case is moot when the issues presented are no longer `live' or the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so long as whatever evidence the city relies upon is reasonably believed to be relevant to the problem that the city addresses.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.