Green v. Mortham’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.3d 1332 · 1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2022
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Bullock v. Carter · Burdick v. Takushi · Jenness v. Fortson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“important state interest in requiring some preliminary showing of a significant modicum of support before printing the name of a political organization's candidate on the ballot—the interest, if no other, in avoiding confusion, deception, and even frustration of the democratic process at the general election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a range of fees and signature requirements that are constitutional, and [a state] legislature is free to choose its ballot access requirements from that constitutional spectrum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no more free to impose the legislative judgments of other states on a sister state than it is free to substitute its own judgment for that of the state legislature.”
1 later decision 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.