Cases Citing Legal Blogs

[Update: This post has now been revised and updated here.]

    

This is a collection of cases that cite legal blogs. The cases are listed below, and each case name is hyperlinked to a blog post containing 1) the excerpt with the blog citation, and 2) additional commentary. The URL's for the blog citations are active, and will bring the reader to the original online source.

    

The blog with the most case citations is Sentencing Law and Policy, with 21 citations in 17 cases. (Note that the majority and dissenting opinions in Ameline are posted separately; thus SLP is cited in cases #1-18.) Three other well-known legal blogs are represented, each being cited once: Legal Theory Blog for its archived lexicon, in Brasher's Cascade Auto Auction (case #19); The Volokh Conspiracy for a song parody, in Suboh v. Borgioli (case #20); and How Appealing for a reference to its "20 Questions" series, in Kennedy v. Lockyer (case #21).

    

The case of Batzel v. Smith (case #22) does not cite any legal blog as an authority, but instead names four examples of "popular and respected legal blogs": How Appealing, SCOTUSBlog, The Volokh Conspiracy, and Lessig Blog. It also names Instapundit as an example of a political blog. The final, unpublished case, Tsukroff v. Hedgeside Property & Inv. Co. (case #23) cites a California blog, The UCL Practitioner, for its collection of trial court orders and appellate briefs.

    

Cases Citing Legal Blogs

1. United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 278 (2005) (Stevens, J., dissenting)
2. United States v. Penaranda, 375 F.3d 238, 247 (2d Cir. 2004)
3. United States v. Ameline (majority), 376 F.3d 967, 978 (9th Cir. 2004)
4. United States v. Ameline (dissent), 376 F.3d 967, 986 (9th Cir. 2004) (Gould, J., dissenting)
5. United States v. Rodriguez, 406 F.3d 1261, 1284 (11th Cir. 2005) (Tjoflat, J., dissenting)
6. United States v. Levy, 391 F.3d 1327, 1341 (11th Cir. 2004) (Tjoflat, J., dissenting)
7. United States v. Valencia-Aguirre, 409 F. Supp. 2d 1358, 1379 (D. Fla. 2006)
8. United States v. Bailey, 369 F. Supp. 2d 1090, 1092 (D. Neb. 2005)
9. United States v. Khan, 325 F. Supp. 2d 218, 223 (D. N.Y. 2004)
10. United States v. Onunwor, Order NO. 1:04-CR-211 (N.D. Ohio Aug. 19, 2004)
11. United States v. Phelps, 366 F. Supp. 2d 580, 584 (D. Tenn. 2005)
12. United States v. Croxford, 324 F. Supp. 2d 1255, 1261 (D. Utah 2004)
13. United States v. Wilson (Feb. 2, 2005), 355 F. Supp. 2d 1269, 1271, 1286 (D. Utah 2005)
14. United States v. Wilson (Jan. 12, 2005), 350 F. Supp. 2d 910, 922 (D. Utah 2005)
15. United States v. Johnson, 333 F. Supp. 2d 573, 577 (D. W. Va. 2004)
16. United States v. Greer, 375 F. Supp. 2d 790, 795 (D. Wis. 2005)
17. Smylie v. State, 823 N.E.2d 679, 687 (Ind. 2005)
18. State v. Foster, 2006 Ohio 856, P8 (Ohio 2006)
19. Brasher’s Cascade Auto Auction v. Valley Auto Sales & Leasing, 119 Cal. App. 4th 1038, 1057 (Cal. Ct. App. 2004)
20. Suboh v. Borgioli, 298 F. Supp. 2d 192, 194 (D. Mass. 2004)
21. Kennedy v. Lockyer, 379 F.3d 1041, 1065 (9th Cir. 2004)
22. Batzel v. Smith, 351 F.3d 904, 906 (9th Cir. 2003)
23. Tsukroff v. Hedgeside Property & Inv. Co., California Superior Court, Napa County, case no. 26-25117 (order dated 01/19/05) (unpublished)