First Amendment Foundation v. Village of Brookfield’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2011
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on 407 F. Supp. 451 - Turner v. American Bar Ass'n · Daniel M. Pilla and Jerome Daly v. The American Bar Association · Strong Delivery Ministry Association, an Illinois Corporation v. Board of Appeals of Cook County and Mr. George Dunne, President of Cook County Board of Commissioners, Sears, Sucsy & Co., a Delaware Corporation v. Insurance Company of North America, Third-Party v. Westcott Trainor, Third-Party · United States v. Reeves · 555 F. Supp. 684 - Move Organization v. United States Department of Justice
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Corporations must be represented in court by attorneys admitted to practice, and may not appear through an officer or other lay representative. Strong Delivery Ministry Association v. Board of Appeals, 543 F.2d 32 (7th Cir.1976). The same rule applies to partnerships and other unincorporated organizations. Move Organization v. United States Department of Justice, 555 F.Supp. 684, 692-93 (E.D.Pa.1983); Tur ner v. American Bar Association, 407 F.Supp. 451, 476 (N.D.Tex., W.D.Pa., N.D.Ind., D.Minn., S.D.Ala., W.D.Wis.1975), aff'd sub nom. Pilla v. American Bar Association, 542 F.2d 56 (8th Cir.1976). But see United States v. Reeves, 431 F.2d 1187 (9th Cir.1970).”
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.