Pickup v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.3d 1208 · 2013
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is left of petitioners’ argument is an asserted First Amendment right of a physician not to provide information about the risks of abortion, and childbirth, in a manner mandated by the State. To be sure, the physician’s First Amendment rights not to speak are implicated, see Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 , 97 S.Ct. 1428 , 51 L.Ed.2d 752 (1977), but only as part of the practice of medicine, subject to reasonable licensing and regulation by the State, cf. Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589 , 603, 97 S.Ct. 869 , 51 L.Ed.2d 64 (1977). We see no constitutional infirmity in the requirement that the physician provide the information mandated by the State here.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The statute does not restrain Plaintiffs from imparting information or disseminating opinions; the regulated activities are therapeutic, not symbolic. And an act that 'symbolizes nothing,' even if employing language, is not 'an act of communication' that transforms conduct into First Amendment speech.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a statute is required to bear only a rational relationship to a legitimate state interest, unless it makes a suspect classification or implicates a fundamental right.”
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.