17 Cal. 3d 660 - Choudhry v. Free’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably Ball v. James (1981), 32 Cal. 3d 779 - Fullerton Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Education (1982)
4 federal appellate · 68 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Dunn v. Blumstein · Bullock v. Carter · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Cipriano v. City of Houma
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a [] `real and appreciable impact' on the equality, fairness and integrity of the electoral process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right to vote or hold office may not be conditioned by a property qualification.”
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.