United States v. Sindel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “First Amendment protection against compelled speech ... has been found only in the context of governmental compulsion to disseminate a particular political or ideological message.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Amawi v. Pflugerville Indep. Sch. Dist. · C.N., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.N., a Minor L.M., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of V.M., a Minor M.E., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.E., a Minor v. Ridgewood Board of Education Frederick J. Stokley Joyce Snider Ronald Verdicchio Robert Weakley John Mucciolo Anthony Bencivenga Sheila Brogan

2. “Congress cannot have intended to allow local rules of professional ethics to carve out fifty different privileged exemptions to the reporting requirements of 26 U.S.C. Sec. 6050I.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Blackman · United States v. Blackman

3. “only to provide the government with information which his clients have given him voluntarily, not to disseminate publicly a message with which he disagrees”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. C.N., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.N., a Minor L.M., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of V.M., a Minor M.E., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.E., a Minor v. Ridgewood Board of Education Frederick J. Stokley Joyce Snider Ronald Verdicchio Robert Weakley John Mucciolo Anthony Bencivenga Sheila Brogan · Cn Jn Lm Vm Me Je v. Ridgewood Board of Education