Brenda Curtis v. James R. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 1291 · 1988
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably International Kennel Club of Chicago, Inc. v. Mighty Star, Inc. (1988), Meridian Mutual Insurance v. Meridian Insurance Group (1997)
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
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 39 U.S.C. § 3008 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Turner v. Safley · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Boyd v. United States · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that [she] has no adequate remedy at law; (2) that [she] will suffer irreparable harm if the preliminary injunction is not issued; (3) that the irreparable harm [she] will suffer if the preliminary injunction is not granted is greater than the irreparable harm the defendant will suffer if the injunction is granted; (4) that [she] has a reasonable likelihood of prevailing on the merits; and (5) that the injunction will not harm the public interest.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the fundamental right to privacy clashes with the right of free expression, the interest in privacy does not play second fiddle when the speech is merely intended to propose a commercial transaction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) The notice may be given by the owner personally or by a third party in the owner’s name, either in the form of an individual notice or a list, provided it complies with this subsection.”
3 later decisions 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.