Bufford v. Holton’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
April 1972
most recently cited
2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 202. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the imposition and application of the durational residency requirement as a precondition to voting for the offices of President and Vice-President, and the lack of sufficient opportunities for absentee registration and absentee balloting in presidential elections— (1) denies or abridges the inherent constitutional right of citizens to vote for their President and Vice-President; (2) denies or abridges the inherent constitutional right of citizens to enjoy their free movement across state lines; (3) denies or abridges the privileges and immunities guaranteed to the citizens of each State under Artiele IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution ; (4) in some instances has the impermissible purpose or effect of denying citizens the right to vote for such officers because of the way they might vote; (5) has the effect of denying to citizens the equality of civil rights, and due process and equal protection of the laws that are guaranteed to them under the fourteenth amendment; and (6) does not bear a reasonable relationship to any compelling State interest in the conduct of Presidential elections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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