City of Paducah v. Investment Entertainment, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 463 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Deja Vu of Nashville, Inc. v. The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (2001), Federal Express Corporation v. Tennessee Public Service Commission (1991)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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))
Relies on Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Freedman v. Maryland · Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to control future expression by businesses that have been subjected to the nuisance abatement procedure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications.... To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points of learning, religion, and government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”); and raises the prospect of manipulation and misinformation when we”
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.