Lewis v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Farrar v. Hobby · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech. However, it does not grant carte blanche for all speech under all circumstances. See Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 473 U.S. 788, 799 , 105 S.Ct. 3439, 3447 , 87 L.Ed.2d 567 ... (1985). Rather a governmental entity may “preserve the property under its control for the use to which it is lawfully dedicated.” Id., 473 U.S. at 800 , 105 S.Ct. at 3448 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o personalized license plates shall be issued ... which are obscene, profane, inflammatory or contrary to public policy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“might still have constitutionally permissible grounds for denying or revoking [Ms. Lewis's] vanity plate,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.