Gay Lib v. The University Of Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 848 · 1977
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012 · most notably Ratchford v. Gay Lib (1978), Mid-Hudson Legal Services, Inc. v. G & U, Inc. (1978)
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]any [United States] Supreme Court cases dealing with prior restraints and other First Amendment issues made clear that the restriction of First Amendment rights in the present context may be justified only by a far greater showing of a likelihood of imminent lawless action than that presented here.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Among the rights protected by the First Amendment is the right of individuals to associate to further their personal beliefs. While the freedom of association is not explicitly set out in the Amendment, it has long been held to be implicit in the freedoms of speech, assembly, and petition____ There can be no doubt that denial of official recognition, without justification, to college organizations burdens or abridges that associational right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[I]t is, at most, a “pro-homosexual” political organization advocating a liberalization of legal restrictions against the practice of homosexuality and one seeking, by the educational and informational process, to generate understanding and acceptance of individuals whose sexual orientation is wholly or partly homosexual.”
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.