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Mech v. School Board’s Empirical Analysis

806 F.3d 1070 · 2015

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
September 2024
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes · Pleasant Grove City v. Summum · Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth · Johanns Secretary of Agriculture et al. v. Livestock Marketing Association et al.

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “includes 'choosing not to speak' and 'speaking through the ... removal' of speech that the government disapproves.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[t]he absence of historical evidence can be overcome by other indicia of government speech,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “The absence of historical evidence weighs in [Plaintiffs'] favor.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.