Block v. Meese’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 1303 · 1986
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably University of Pennsylvania v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1990), Meese III v. Keene (1987)
49 federal appellate · 16 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 22 U.S.C. § 611 (Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938) · 22 U.S.C. § 612 · 22 U.S.C. § 613 · 22 U.S.C. § 614 · 22 U.S.C. § 616 · 22 U.S.C. § 620 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Paul v. Davis
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e know of no case in which the first amendment has been held to be implicated by governmental action consisting of no more than governmental criticism of the speech's content.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]t is impossible to maintain, of course, that there is no standing to sue regarding action of a defendant which harms the plaintiff only through the reaction of third persons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“; potential customers declined to take the film because of the classification). 10 See, e.g., Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1817 (1981 ed.) (”
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.