McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
432 federal appellate · 166 district · 358 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,488 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Leila Jeanne Hill Audrey Himmelmann Everitt Simpsons v. Colorado (2000), McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)
432 federal appellate · 166 district · 358 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · Roth v. United States · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Powell v. McCormack
Cited together with Buckley v. Valeo · Victoria Buckley, Secretary of State of Colorado, v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti · Meyer v. Grant
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 1,488 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“occupies the core of the protection afforded by the First Amendment.”
113 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a notice, placard, dodger, advertisement, sample ballot, or any other form of general publication which is designed to promote the nomination or election or defeat of a candidate, or to promote the adoption or defeat of any issue, or to influence the voters in any election ... unless there appears on such form of publication in a conspicuous place or is contained within said statement the name and residence or business address of the chairman, treasurer, or secretary of the organization issuing the same, or the person who issues, makes, or is responsible therefor.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech....”
6 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.