Blassman v. Markworth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Reynolds v. Sims · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shown to preclude or substantially narrow the field of candidates who espouse any given political, ideological, and/or socio-economic views”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stiles v. Blunt
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.