Doe v. Nebraska’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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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.

1. “[A] web page or collection of web sites contained on the Internet (a) that enables users or subscribers to create, display, and maintain a profile or Internet domain containing biographical data, personal information, photos, orothertypesofmedia, (b) that can be searched, viewed, or accessed by other users or visitors to the web site, with or without the creator’s permission, consent, invitation, or authorization, and (c) that may permit some form of communication, such as direct comment on the profile page, instant messaging, or email, between the creator of the profile and users who have viewed or accessed the creator’s profile^]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Packingham

2. “The lack of such notice in a law that regulates expression raises special First Amendment concerns because of its obvious chilling effect on free speech. . . . [Government may regulate in the area of First Amendment freedoms only with narrow specificity[.] These principles apply to laws that regulate expression for the purpose of protecting children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Packingham

3. “Thus, any offender who does so much as send an e-mail message to his member of Congress is faced with the real possibility that the police will come into his home without a warrant to search his computer.... Many a rational offender will give up a computer and the ability to express himself on the Internet to remain secure in his home.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Coppolino v. Noonan