Burdick v. Takushi’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
582 federal appellate · 267 district · 389 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,152 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party (2008)
582 federal appellate · 267 district · 389 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Reynolds v. Sims · Williams v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown
Cited together with Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown · Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party · Norman v. Reed Cook County Officers Electoral Board · 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 2,152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the character and magnitude of the asserted injury to the rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments that the plaintiff seeks to vindicate”
258 later decisions quote this exact passage“the extent to which those interests make it necessary to burden the plaintiff's rights.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brady v. Ohman · Short v. Brown“narrowly drawn to advance a state interest of compelling importance.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.