Morse v. Republican Party of Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 29 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 261 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably California Democratic Party v. Jones (2000), Keele v. Wexler (1998)
101 federal appellate · 29 district · 4 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 Monroe v. Pape · Buckley v. Valeo · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Cort v. Ash
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 261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a practical matter, the ultimate choice of the mass of voters is predetermined when the nominations [by the major political parties] have been made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“First, while it is true that the case before us today does not involve any charge of racial discrimination in voting, the decision whether discrimination has occurred or was intended to occur, as we have explained on many occasions, is for the Attorney General or the District Court for the District of Columbia to make in the first instance. Citations omitted. The critical question for us, as for the District Court below, is whether “the challenged alteration has the potential for discrimination.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We need not go further in determining when party activities are, in effect, substitutes for state nominating primaries because the case before us involves a nominating convention that resembles a primary about as closely as one could imagine.”
2 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.