Lawline v. American Bar Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 1378 · 1992
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1997), Nationwide Insurance v. Zavalis (1995)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Relies on National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · Parker v. Brown · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Parker v. Levy
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any abridgement of the right to free speech is merely the incidental effect of observing an otherwise legitimate [occupational] regulation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when a trade association provides information' (by giving its approval in that case, its disapproval in this case) 'but does not constrain others to follow its recommendations, it does not violate the antitrust laws.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“supports the proposition that laypersons have a right to obtain meaningful access to the courts, and to enter into associations with lawyers to effectuate that end.”
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.