Lippitt v. Cipollone Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2002 · most notably Storer v. Brown (1974), Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party (1997)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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 Williams v. Rhodes · Lippitt v. Cipollone · State ex rel. Bible v. Board of Elections
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevent[ing] 'raiding' of one party by members of another party and [by] preclud[ing] candidates from '. . . altering their political party affiliations for opportunistic reasons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[n]o person shall be a candidate for nomination or election at a party primary if he voted as a member of a different political party at any primary election within the next preceding four calendar years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.