Burns v. Fortson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Anderson v. Celebrezze (1983), Storer v. Brown (1974)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 Dunn v. Blumstein · Marston v. Lewis · Abbott 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, we are confronted with a recent and amply justifiable legislative judgment that 50 days rather than 30 is necessary to promote the State’s important interest in accurate voter lists. The Constitution is not so rigid that that determination and others like it may not stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoffman v. Maryland“Even if we would be inclined to defer to a recent and informed legislative determination of necessity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[fifty]-day registration period approaches the outer constitutional limits in this area”
1 later decision 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.