Day v. Holahan’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 1356 · 1994
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Davis v. Federal Election Commission (2008), Jeremiah Nixon Attorney General of Missouris v. Shrink Missouri Government Pac (2000)
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 · United States v. O'Brien · Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co. · Boos v. Barry
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“too low to allow meaningful participation in protected political speech and association,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he knowledge that a candidate who one does not want to be elected will have her spending limits increased and will receive a public subsidy ... as a direct result of that independent expenditure, chills the free exercise of that protected speech.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a constitutional test for when a nonprofit corporation must be exempt,”
3 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.