Paulsen v. Lehman’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2011
1 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Elrod v. Burns · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any unlawful prior restraint on the plaintiff's right to distribute noncommercial literature or to engage in other First Amendment activity within [certain areas of] Jones Beach State Park”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“based solely upon its beach characteristics”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“public forum for First Amendment purposes”
1 later decision 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.