Tory v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et L'Antisemitisme (2006), 40 Cal. 4th 1141 - Balboa Island Village Inn, Inc. v. Lemen (2007)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a prudential matter, the better course is to avoid passing unnecessarily on the constitutional question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]n 'order' issued in 'the area of First Amendment rights' must be 'precis[e]' and narrowly 'tailored' to achieve the 'pin-pointed objective' of the 'needs of the case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the injunction (considered prior to [the defamation victim's] death) was not properly tailored and consequently violated the First Amendment.”
1 later decision 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.