Cressman v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.3d 938 · 2015
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Steffel v. Thompson · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the governmental measure must punish, or threaten to punish, protected speech by governmental action that is regulatory, proscriptive, or compulsory in nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Semple v. Griswold“right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Semple v. Griswold
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.