Byrne v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he law of this [Circuit] describes a limited public forum as both a subset of the designated public forum and a nonpublic forum opened to certain kinds of speakers or to the discussion of certain subjects.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 342 F. Supp. 3d 275 - Hansen v. Town of Smithtown · 880 F. Supp. 2d 456 - American Freedom Defense Initiative v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority

2. “[w]e evaluate each party's motion on its own merits, taking care in each instance to draw all reasonable inferences against the party whose motion is under consideration.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hyunhuy Nam v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United · Suluki v. Credit One Bank, NA

3. “distinguish[ed] between those who seek to express secular and religious views on the same subjects .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Archdiocese of Wash. v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth. · Archdiocese of Wash. v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth. & Paul J. Wiedefeld