Relative to Alito's legal thinking and philosophy, one writer in 2011 looked particularly at Alito dissents in "Snyder v. Phelps", "Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association", and "United States v. Stevens", three First Amendment cases. The writer traced the influence of "The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress", "The Morality of Consent" and other Bickel writings both as they bore on Alito's developing thinking in college and as he chose to go to Yale (Bickel would die during Alito's third year there); and as the Bickel writings bore on the solitary or minority opinions Alito wrote in the three cases, here departing in cases even from other usually allied conservative members of the court.