Ayers-Schaffner v. Distefano’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.3d 726 · 1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2022
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Dunn v. Blumstein · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown · Bullock v. Carter
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.
“The right to vote “is of the most fundamental significance under our constitutional structure” ... and depriving a qualified voter of the right to cast a ballot because of failure to vote in an earlier election is almost inconceivable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The long line of cases upholding ballot access requirements are patently inapplicable, as limiting candidates through reasonable advance requirements provides no justification for the retroactive restriction of the right to vote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poindexter v. Strach“[t]he right to vote is of the most fundamental significance under our constitutional structure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saucedo v. Gardner
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.