Swanson v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) allowing voters to sign the petition regardless of party affiliation; (2) allowing voters who already voted in the primary to sign the petition; (3) allowing voters to sign more than one petition; (4) lack of restriction on how many signatures were allowed from one area; (5) lack of restriction on how many signatures could be submitted in an effort to meet the 3% requirement; (6) allowing sufficient time to conduct the petitioning effort; (7) the ability of minor political parties to qualify for the ballot in the past; and (8) the cost required was not impermissibly burdensome.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnny Swanson, III v. The State of Alabama

2. “the only way the same wrong could recur for Grimsley, Cobb, and Swanson would be if Alabama were to change the law regarding the registration deadline again and fail to give them notice of it again . . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Swanson III v. Worley O C

3. “an important interest in requiring independent candidates to show they had a significant modicum of support before printing their names on the ballot.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Swanson III v. Worley O C