Rattner v. Netburn’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 204 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Easton v. Sundram (1991), Vezzetti v. Pellegrini (1994)
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 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. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Bibby v. United States
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct is deserving of [F]irst [A]mendment protection”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he healthy growth of many local businesses depends on the trust and honesty displayed by our local businesses.... I believe — and many of my neighbors believe — that the recent Gazette raises significant questions and concerns about the objectivity and trust which we are looking for from our business friends.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Several Chamber directors testified at their depositions that they viewed the letter as reminiscent of McCarthyism, threatening them with boycott or discriminatory enforcement of Village regulations if they permitted the publication of additional statements by Rattner....”
2 later decisions 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.