Nielsen v. Kezer’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Johnson v. Department of Public Health (1998), Sheff v. O'Neill (1996)
36 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 Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · State v. Golding · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the characteristic of such issues as political is a convenient shorthand for declaring that some other branch of government has constitutional authority over the subject matter superior to that of the courts.' Pellegrino v. O'Neill, [ 193 Conn. 670 , 680 , cert. denied, 469 U.S. 875 (1984)]. The fundamental characteristic of a political question, therefore, is that its' adjudication would place the court in conflict with a coequal branch of government in violation of the primary authority of that coordinate branch. Baker v. Carr, [ 369 U.S. 186 , 217 (1984)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be viewed in the context of [the political party's] constitutionally protected associational rights. . . . [T]he constitutional protection extends to the [p]arty's determination of the boundaries of its own association, and of the structure which best allows it to pursue its political goals . . . [A] party has broad latitude to determine how to best organize itself and to conduct its affairs . . . including the discretion to determine the appropriate standards for participation in the [p]arty's candidate selection process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the plaintiffs' claims present no special obstacles to judicial ascertainment and application of appropriate standards for resolving them, and adjudication of the claims does not require judicial policy-making properly left to another branch of government. On the contrary, the controversy raises issues of constitutional and statutory interpretation of the kind regularly entertained by courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.