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← 171 USAPPDC 172 - Buckley v. Valeo

Buckley v. Valeo’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 1981
most recently cited

16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 591 · 18 U.S.C. § 600 · 18 U.S.C. § 608 (§ 202 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 610 · 23 U.S.C. § 120 · 26 U.S.C. § 170 · 26 U.S.C. § 6096 (Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act of 1966) · 26 U.S.C. § 9002

Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien · Reynolds v. Sims · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Congress was concerned with the inhibitory effect of a massive rearrangement of regulations operating upon federal campaigns and elections, and wanted election participants to be permitted expeditiously to test the facial validity of limitations and requirements imposed by the challenged Acts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Clark v. Valeo
  2. “Unless it is evident that the legislature would not have enacted those provisions which are within its power, independently of that which is not, the invalid part may be dropped if what is left is fully operative as a law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Community-Service Broadcasting of Mid-America, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
  3. “The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution (and) the Laws of the United States . . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Clark v. Valeo

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.