Freedom to Travel Campaign v. Newcomb’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 1431 · 1996
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et L'Antisemitisme (2006), Diego Militia v. Reno (1996)
41 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Kolender v. Lawson · Mistretta v. United States · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Legal questions that require little factual development are more likely to be ripe.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If it is “inevitable” that the challenged rule will “operat[e]” to the plaintiffs disadvantage — if the court can make a firm prediction that the plaintiff will apply for the benefit, and that the agency will deny the application by virtue of the [challenged] rule — then there may well be a justiciable controversy that the court may find prudent to resolve.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[g]iven the lesser importance of ... freedom to travel abroad, the Government need only advance a rational, or at most an important, reason for imposing the ban.”
2 later decisions 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.