Storer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
772 federal appellate · 314 district · 466 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,595 later decisions (107 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Elrod v. Burns (1976)
772 federal appellate · 314 district · 466 state decisions — followed in 39 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Shapiro v. Thompson · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
Cited together with Anderson v. Celebrezze · Williams v. Rhodes · Jenness v. Fortson · American Party of Texas v. White · Burdick v. Takushi
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 2,595 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a practical matter, there must be a substantial regulation of elections if they are to be fair and honest and if some sort of order, rather than chaos, is to accompany the democratic processes.”
188 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he construction of the statute, an understanding of its operation, and possible constitutional limits on its application, will have the effect of simplifying future challenges, thus increasing the likelihood that timely filed cases can be adjudicated before an election is held.”
13 later decisions 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.