Shopco Distribution Company Inc v. Commanding General of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune North Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 167 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Mylan Laboratories, Inc. v. Akzo, N.V. (1993), Li v. Gonzales (2005)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. · Schneider v. State · Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is 'the primary business of armies and navies to fight or be ready to fight wars should the occasion arise.' ... And it is consequently the business of a military installation ... to train soldiers, not to provide a public forum.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lmost without exception, courts have concluded that military bases fall into the non-public forum category.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even assuming arguendo that the Commanding General did ... change Camp Lejeune housing areas from non-public to public forums, he 'is not required to indefinitely retain the open character of the facilit[ies],' ") (quotation omitted); U.S. v. Bjerke , 796 F.2d 643 , 647 (3d Cir. 1986) ("[O]fficials may choose to close such a designated public forum at any time.”
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.