Richman v. Shevin’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1995
5 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 · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Holley v. Adams · 263 So. 2d 797 - In Re Apportionment Law, Senate Joint Res. No. 1305 · 129 So. 2d 419 - Bodner v. Gray
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`1. The tendency or possibility to create a quid pro quo relationship, and 2. the creation of an appearance of influence [or] corruption.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Legislature of Florida, [is] necessarily vested with great power in prescribing regulations governing the election of its public officials... . These acts and this determiniation come to us with a presumption of validity an extremely strong presumption in statutes regulating the conduct of elections... . The law places restraints upon all of its citizens in the exercise of their rights and liberties under a republican form of government. Such restraints have been found to be necessary in the development of our democratic processes to preserve the very liberties which we exercise. Similar restraints may lawfully be imposed upon individual candidates for public office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the prevention of corruption and the appearance of corruption spawned by the real or imagined coercive influence of large financial contributions on candidates' positions and on their actions if elected to office'”
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.