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Dimmitt v. City of Clearwater’s Empirical Analysis

985 F.2d 1565 · 1993

Citation profile

cited by 73 later decisions

cited 1 times by the Supreme Court

states following

October 2023

most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably City of Chicago v. Morales (1999), CAMP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. v. City of Atlanta (2006)

14 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Cort v. Ash · United States v. Salerno · United States v. O'Brien · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“uphold a state statute against a facial challenge if the statute is readily susceptible to a narrowing construction that avoids constitutional infirmities. We 'will not, however, rewrite the clear terms of a statute in order to reject a facial challenge,' and, as a federal court, ‘we must be particularly reluctant to rewrite the terms of a state statute.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Solantic, LLC v. City of Neptune Beach · Florida Right to Life Inc v. Lawson Lamar Valerie Crotty Florida Right to Life Political Action Committee
“these asserted interests clearly are not served by the distinction between government and other types of flags.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Solantic, LLC v. City of Neptune Beach · Beaulieu v. Alabaster City of
“we must be particularly reluctant to rewrite the terms of a state statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. v. Town of Palm Beach · Florida Right to Life Inc v. Lawson Lamar Valerie Crotty Florida Right to Life Political Action Committee

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.