Raymond E. Trafelet v. James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 9 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1994 · most notably Malmed v. Thornburgh (1980), 481 F. Supp. 1315 - Shakman v. Democratic Organization of Cook Cty. (1979)
55 federal appellate · 9 district · 32 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 · Illinois State Board of Elections v. Socialist Workers Party
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.