Burt v. Blumenauer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Vargas v. City of Salinas (2009), 599 So. 2d 529 - Smith v. Dorsey (1992)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It hardly seems necessary to rely on the First Amendment, at least when government resources are devoted to promoting one side in an election on which the legitimacy of the government itself rests. The principles of representative government enshrined in our constitutions would limit government intervention on behalf of its own candidates or against their opponents even if the First Amendment and its state equivalents had never been adopted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the concerns that stretch out to many forms of so called government speech”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgins v. DMV“government may facilitate the market but not itself enter the bidding.”
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.