Clements v. Fashing’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
370 federal appellate · 144 district · 488 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,412 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Anderson v. Celebrezze (1983), Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America v. City of Jacksonville (1993)
370 federal appellate · 144 district · 488 state decisions — followed in 39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLongstaff, Petition Of (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 7324
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Elrod v. Burns · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
Cited together with Anderson v. Celebrezze · Bullock v. Carter · Storer v. Brown · Williams v. Rhodes · American Party of Texas v. White
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 1,412 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have important interests in protecting the integrity of their political processes from frivolous or fraudulent candidacies, in ensuring that their election processes are efficient, in avoiding voter confusion caused by an overcrowded ballot, and in avoiding the expense and burden of run-off elections.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Decision in this area of constitutional adjudication is a matter of degree, and involves a consideration of the facts and circumstances behind the law, the interests the State seeks to protect by placing restrictions on candidacy, and the nature of the interests of those who may be burdened by the restrictions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] [s]tate [may] regulate 'one step at a time, addressing itself to the phase of the problem which seems most acute'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.