Snell v. Engineered Systems & Designs, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2019
1 district · 13 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Gomez v. Toledo · Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the statute were construed to provide that any person's belief that [defendant's] use of 'engineered' is misleading, no matter how irrational or unreasonable that belief may be, the statute could run afoul of the First Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“violated only if there is proof that the use of 'engineered' ... would leave a reasonable person to believe that the defendant is holding itself out as engaging in the practice of engineering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'likely to deceive the public based upon the general public's use of the term.'”
1 later decision 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.