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Cressman v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

798 F.3d 938 · 2015

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
July 2025
most recently cited

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.

  1. “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 concurrence
  2. “right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all.”
    1 later decision 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.