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Cooksey v. Futrell’s Empirical Analysis

721 F.3d 226 · 2013

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
July 2024
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 3 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Allen v. Wright · Califano v. Sanders · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation

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

  1. “[g]overnment action will be sufficiently chilling when it is likely to deter a person of ordinary firmness from the exercise of First Amendment rights.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the appropriate timing of judicial intervention,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “sufficient showing of self-censorship, which occurs when a claimant is chilled from exercising his right to free expression.”
    2 later decisions 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.