American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc. v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 1092 · 1997
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Victoria Buckley, Secretary of State of Colorado, v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc. (1999), Initiative & Referendum Institute v. Walker (2006)
13 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Gault · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Kolender v. Lawson · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court considering a challenge to a state election law must weigh “the character and magnitude of the asserted injury to the rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments that the plaintiff seeks to vindicate” against “the precise interests put forward by the State as justifications for the burden imposed by its rule,” taking into consideration “the extent to which those interests make it necessary to burden the plaintiffs rights.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interactive communication concerning political change.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mandatory exclusion of unregistered circulators also limits the number of voices to convey the proponent's message, limiting the audience the proponents can reach and making it less likely they will be able to gather the required number of signatures to place a measure on the ballot.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.