Marchioro v. Chaney’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Eu v. San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee (1989), California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000)
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 46 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 · United States v. Batchelder · Cousins v. Wigoda
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The State's interest in ensuring that this process is conducted in a fair and orderly fashion is unquestionably legitimate; `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.' Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724, 730 , 94 S.Ct. 1274, 1279 , 39 L.Ed.2d 714 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There can be no complaint that the party's right to govern itself has been substantially burdened by statute when the source of the complaint is the party's own decision....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There can be no complaint that the party’s right to govern itself has been substantially burdened by statute when the source of the complaint is the party’s own decision to confer critical authority on the State Committee. The elected legislative representatives who claim that they have been unable to participate in the internal policymaking of the Committee should address their complaint to the party.”
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.