Adams v. Askew’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 700 · 1975
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably French Quarter Apartments, Ltd. v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1981), Center for Individual Freedom v. Carmouche (2006)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Flast v. Cohen · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Bullock v. Carter · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Lubin v. Panish
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Voters’ rights are not infringed where a candidate chooses not to run because he is unwilling to comply with reasonable state requirements. They are no more affected by a candidate’s unwillingness to pay a reasonable filing fee than they are when he refuses to comply with financial disclosure laws, or, for that matter, a reasonable petitioning requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Biener v. Calio“[W]here the fees exacted have `a real and appreciable impact on the exercise of the franchise,' based solely upon lack of wealth and inability to translate voter support into dollars, a strict standard of review is to be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the plaintiffs] . . . confuse an attack on the constitutionality of a statute on its face with an attack on the statute as applied.”
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.