Bullock v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
634 federal appellate · 322 district · 640 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,504 later decisions (105 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
634 federal appellate · 322 district · 640 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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 Dandridge v. Williams · Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Snowden v. Hughes · Williams v. Rhodes
Cited together with Williams v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown · Jenness v. Fortson · Lubin v. Panish
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 2,504 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not every limitation or incidental burden on the exercise of voting rights is subject to a stringent standard of review.”
99 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) State has an interest, if not a duty, to protect the integrity of its political processes from frivolous or fraudulent candidacies.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the State of Texas has erected a system that utilizes the criterion of ability to pay as a condition to being on the ballot, thus excluding some candidates otherwise qualified and denying an undetermined number of voters the opportunity to vote for candidates of their choice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.