Montano v. Los Alamos County’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Burdick v. Takushi · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Illinois State Board of Elections v. Socialist Workers Party
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhile [i]t is beyond cavil that voting is of the most fundamental significance under our constitutional structure, not every voting regulation is subject to strict scrutiny. It is only when those rights are subjected to severe restrictions, that the regulation must be narrowly drawn to advance a state interest of compelling importance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.