Nader v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.3d 1028 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Libertarian Party v. Judd (2013), Nader v. Blackwell (2008)
15 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown · Burdick v. Takushi · Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal courts have generally looked with favor on requiring petition circulators to agree to submit to jurisdiction . . . and the courts have viewed such a system to be a more narrowly tailored means than a residency requirement to achieve the same result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exclude[d] from eligibility all persons who support the candidate but who ... live outside the state of Arizona.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Election cases are difficult. The historical background for such litigation changes rapidly.... [Bjallot-access requirements ... have proved difficult for courts to evaluate, given both the state’s compelling interests in preventing fraud and providing orderly election administration, and the Constitution’s mandate for free political expression and participation that require such ballot-access restrictions to survive strict scrutiny.”
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.