Pro-Choice Network v. Schenck’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 359 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western NY (1997), Pro-Choice Network of Western New York v. Schenck (1995)
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Singleton v. Wulff · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“injures, disturbs, or endangers . . . health or safety”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Enjoined and restrained from: ... (E) using any mechanical loudspeaker or sound amplification device, including but not limited to megaphones, bullhorns, and electric amplifiers, or making any excessively loud sound which injures, disturbs, or endangers the health or safety of any patient or employee of any such facility....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“protest, a planned mass demonstration scheduled for April of that year. 5 Between the issuance of the 1992 Injunction and the initiation of this action, protest activities at reproductive health facilities in the Western District of New York continued on a regular basis, but with less intensity. In October 1998, those activities promised to take a serious turn: members of the pro-life protest movement, including some of the defendants in this action, announced”
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.