Sanger v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Qwest Services Corp. v. Blood (2011), Developmental Pathways v. Ritter (2008)
39 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · United States v. O'Brien · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contends that the statute would be unconstitutional under the circumstances in which the [party] has acted or proposes to act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The practical effect of holding a statute unconstitutional as applied is to prevent its future application in a similar context, but not to render it utterly inoperative.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“influence the outcome of Colorado elections.”
2 later decisions 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.