Spencer v. Herdesty’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 39 U.S.C. § 2401 · 39 U.S.C. § 3626 · 39 U.S.C. § 3627
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · Stanley v. Illinois · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Schneider v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because [it] has not achieved a required level of acceptance is not different from censoring speech because of its substance.”
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.