Douglas Campbell v. Victoria’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2024
7 district · 7 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 · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Plyler v. Doe · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cases discussed above which applied strict scrutiny do not lend themselves to a simple synthesis. As we read them, however, strict scrutiny is applied where the government restricts the overall quantum of speech available to the election or voting process. More particularly, strict scrutiny is employed where the quantum of speech is limited due to restrictions on campaign expenditures, as in [Buckley v.] Valeo, [supra] .... In Valeo, [ 424 U.S. at 18, 39 , 96 S.Ct. at 634, 644], the Court applied exacting scrutiny to contribution and expenditure limits, reasoning that “contribution and expenditure limitations impose direct quantity restrictions on political communication and association by persons, groups, candidates, and political parties,” and that “a primary effect of ... expenditure limitations is to restrict the quantity of campaign speech by individuals, groups, and candidates.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While compliance with the single subject requirement may be difficult for some who wish to offer ballot initiatives, and may to some extent limit their goal of unfettered participation in the electoral and legislative process, we are satisfied that the state's reasons for its procedures are sufficiently weighty to justify the procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No measure proposing an amendment or amendments to this constitution shall be submitted by the general assembly to the registered electors of the state containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. ...”
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.