Postscript Enterprises, Inc. v. Whaley’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 1249 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably National Rifle Association Of America v. Magaw (1997), Stephenson v. Davenport Community School District (1997)
17 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Roe v. Wade · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Craig v. Boren
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts traditionally have relied on the common usage of statutory language, judicial explanations of its meaning, and previous applications of the statute to the same or similar conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. United States v. Kaylor · D.C. And M.S. v. The City of St. Louis, Missouri Homer E. Sayad Charles W. Valier Thomas Purcell Robert F. Wintersmith Vincent C. Schoemehl, Jr. Jerome Williams John J. Frank James Mosbacher Robert J. Baer Jordan Lewis Ronald Klier Roy Joachimstaler Antoinette Filla Fred Husman Michael Vierling, Individually and in Their Official Capacities“heed the statutory prohibition, thereby incurring a direct economic injury through the constriction of its market, or ... disobey the statutory command and suffer legal sanctions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Due process has two requirements: that laws provide notice to the ordinary person of what is prohibited and that they provide standards to law enforcement officials to prevent arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Cox
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.