Beckerman v. City of Tupelo’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 502 · 1981
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 212 - Bering v. Share (1986), Basiardanes v. City of Galveston (1982)
37 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.
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Younger v. Harris · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct of the parade will probably cause injury to persons or property or provoke disorderly conduct or create a disturbance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the City is so willing to disregard the traffic problems”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a governmental agency acting within the scope of its functions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.