Kruse’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2024
4 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · Roth v. United States · First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti · Winters v. People of State of New York
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significantly impair the ability of individuals and groups to engage in direct political advocacy and “represent substantial ... restraints on the quantity and diversity of political speech.” And at the same time, the Court has concluded that limitations on independent expenditures are less directly related to preventing corruption, since “[t]he absence of prearrangement and coordination of an expenditure with the candidate ... not only undermines the value of the expenditure to the candidate, but also alleviates the danger that expenditures will be given as a quid pro quo for improper commitments from the candidate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Osterberg v. Peca“[T]he concept that government may restrict the speech of some elements of our society in order to enhance the relative voice of others is wholly foreign to the First Amendment; ... [T]he mere growth in the cost of federal election campaigns in and of itself provides no basis for governmental restrictions in the quantity of campaign spending.... The First Amendment denies government the power to determine that spending to promote one's political views is wasteful, excessive, or unwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Supreme Court’s decision in Buckley ... is not a broad pronouncement declaring all campaign expenditure limits unconstitutional. It may be ... that the interest in freeing officeholders from the pressures of fundraising so they can perform their duties, or the interest in preserving faith in our democracy, is compelling, and that campaign expenditure limits are a narrowly tailored means of serving such an interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.