Murthy v. Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
2024
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably PNC Bancorp, Inc. v. Commissioner (2000), Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania v. Ass'n of Pennsylvania State College & University Faculty (2013)
1 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 230 (Communications Decency Act § 230)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Elrod v. Burns · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the threatened injury is certainly impending, or there is a substantial risk that the harm will occur.”
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.