Fishman v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2019 · most notably Graddick, Attorney General of Alabama v. Newman Et Al. (1981), OHIO CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY, INC. v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Et Al. (1986)
6 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 Williams v. Rhodes · Storer v. Brown · Jenness v. Fortson · American Party of Texas v. White · MTM, Inc. v. Baxley
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'sparingly and only in the most critical and exigent circumstances,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[American Party of Texas v. White, suggest that a requirement]..that all signatures be notarized as the time they are collected is not unconstitutional, at least absent more proof of “impracticability or unusual burdensomeness that was before the Court ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ciudadana v. Gracia“respondents strongly oppose the relief sought, claiming that an injunction at this time would have a chaotic and disruptive effect on the electoral process.... For these reasons, I conclude that the application should be denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbons v. Cenarrusa
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.