Cousins v. Wigoda’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 52 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 464 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)
122 federal appellate · 52 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 20 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 · 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 · 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 464 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the pervasive national interest in the selection of candidates for national office ... is greater than any interest of an individual State”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'(t)he right to associate with the political party of one's choice.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a significant interference with protected rights of political association may be sustained”
5 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.