Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
298 federal appellate · 134 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,039 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Burdick v. Takushi (1992), Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party (2008)
298 federal appellate · 134 district · 180 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Cited together with Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown · Burdick v. Takushi · Eu v. San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee · Williams v. Rhodes
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 1,039 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the precise interests put forward by the State as justifications for the burden imposed by its rule,”
58 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“associational opportunities at the crucial juncture at which the appeal to common principles may be translated into concerted action ....”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives,”
14 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.