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← 53 F.4th 1 - Frese v. Formella

Frese v. Formella’s Empirical Analysis

2022

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
November 2025
most recently cited

3 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. Salerno · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.

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

  1. “all reasonable inferences in [Appellants'] favor.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “fails to provide a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited, or is so standardless that it authorizes or encourages seriously discriminatory enforcement.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[t]he complaint 'must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.'”
    2 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.