White v. Lee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that intrusive investigation that did not culminate in an arrest could chill the exercise of First Amendment rights
• holding that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine is not limited 9 to the antitrust context but “applies equally in all contexts”
• holding that mootness is properly raised in a motion to dismiss pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(1) because it pertains to a court’s subject matter jurisdiction (citations omitted)
• holding that “[i]nformal measures,” including “invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion, persuasion, and intimidation,” can violate the First Amendment even if not carried out
• holding that standing is examined at the commencement of the litigation
• holding that an investigation “exceeded the bounds of reasonable governmental action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

144 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Michael Lacey v. Joseph Arpaio
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-08-29· cited 4,653×
• Safe Air for Everyone v. Meyer
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-07-01· cited 1,884×
• Warren v. Fox Family Worldwide, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-05-13· cited 391×
• Chandler v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-03-17· cited 381×
• Focus on the Family v. Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-09-09· cited 353×
• Sosa v. DIRECTV, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-02-14· cited 232×
• John Ellins v. City of Sierra Madre
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-03-22· cited 191×
• Jonathan Capp v. County of San Diego
  Ninth Circuit· 2019-10-04· cited 160×
• Kitty Hawk Aircargo, Inc. v. Chao
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-07-20· cited 146×
• Gregory Edison v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-05-20· cited 129×
• Eddie Ford v. City of Yakima
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-02-08· cited 100×
• United States Ex Rel. Meyer v. Horizon Health Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-05-14· cited 100×
• Robert Rosebrock v. Ronald Mathis
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-03-14· cited 96×
• Shelly Ioane v. Jean Noll
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-09-10· cited 78×
• Hufford v. McEnaney
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-05-22· cited 76×
• Stearns v. Select Comfort Retail Corp.
  N.D. California· 2010-07-21· cited 72×
• McGrath v. Home Depot USA, Inc.
  S.D. California· 2014-04-10· cited 68×
• Affordable Housing Development Corp. v. City of Fresno
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-01-11· cited 66×
• Brian Mulligan v. James Nichols
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-08-29· cited 63×
• Brian Mecinas v. Katie Hobbs
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-04-08· cited 58×

Cites

75 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-12· cited 6,373×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Hughes v. Rowe
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-10· cited 3,527×
• Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Supreme Court· 1978-01-23· cited 3,039×
• Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-24· cited 2,939×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Wilson v. Layne
  Supreme Court· 1999-05-24· cited 2,678×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 2,614×
• Crawford-El v. Britton
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-04· cited 2,583×
• United States v. W. T. Grant Co.
  Supreme Court· 1953-05-25· cited 2,512×
• Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-03· cited 2,323×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• United States v. Lanier
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-31· cited 2,070×
• Roberts v. United States Jaycees
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-03· cited 2,030×
• Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1961-04-03· cited 1,996×
• United Mine Workers v. Pennington
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,808×
• California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited
  Supreme Court· 1972-01-13· cited 1,621×