417 F. Supp. 837 - Nader v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut (1986), California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000)
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“preserv[es] [political] parties as viable and identifiable interest groups,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seeking a change in the law by judicial fiat”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““From the party’s point of view, enrollment also serves an important housekeeping function. Candidates need to know who is in the electorate, so that they (the candidates) can attempt to persuade those individuals to vote for them. Party members who wish to establish, as party policy, a particular course of conduct through the election of a particular candidate, similarly need to know who their supporters are. It is common experience that direct solicitation of party members — by mail, telephone, or face-to-face contact, and by the candidates themselves or by their active supporters — is part of any primary election campaign. But, without the public list of party members which is provided by the enrollment process, such electioneering would become quite difficult.”
2 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.