Majors v. Abell’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.3d 719 · 2003
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably American Civil Liberties Union v. Alvarez (2012), California Pro-Life Council, Inc. v. Getman (2003)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 · Roe v. Wade · Dunn v. Blumstein · Honig v. Doe · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A plaintiff who mounts a pre-enforcement challenge to a statute that he claims violates his freedom of speech need not show that the authorities have threatened to prosecute him; the threat is latent in the existence of the statute .... [I]f [the statute] arguably covers [his conduct], and so may deter constitutionally protected expression ... there is standing.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Id. at 721 (alteration in original). Confronted with the issue of whether the term “persons” is “limited to candidates, authorized political committees or subcommittees of candidates, and the agents of such committees or subcommittees,” id. at 725 , the Indiana Supreme Court declined to adopt such a narrowing construction:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] candidate plaintiff no more has a duty to run in every election in order to keep his suit alive than an abortion plaintiff has a duty to become pregnant again at the earliest possible opportunity in order to keep her suit alive. Politicians who are defeated in an election will often wait years before running again; obviously this doesn't show they're not serious about their political career.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.