Cheffer v. McGregor’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 705 · 1993
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc. (1994), Church v. City of Huntsville (1994)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Younger v. Harris · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Elrod v. Burns · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Broadrick v. Oklahoma
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“between an actual prohibition of speech and a potential hinderance to the free exercise of abortion rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has all the attributes of a criminal statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]t an irreducible minimum, Art. Ill requires the party who invokes the court’s authority to “show that he personally has suffered some actual or threatened injury as a result of the putatively illegal conduct of the defendant,” and that the injury “fairly can be traced to the challenged action” and “is likely to be redressed by a favorable decision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.