Messer v. City of Douglasville’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 1505 · 1992
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Coral Springs Street Systems, Inc. v. City of Sunrise (2004), Rappa v. New Castle County (1994)
36 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 United States v. O'Brien · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether a regulation allowing onsite noncommercial signs while denying offsite noncommercial signs would be constitutionally permissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Douglasville sign ordinance stands on a different footing from the complete bans on speech in San Diego and the City of Orange.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“1) wall sign per building, side announcing the business and attached to the side of the building, 2) one real estate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.