Lemons v. Bradbury’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.3d 1098 · 2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2024
9 federal appellate · 3 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 Storer v. Brown · Burdick v. Takushi · Moore v. Ogilvie · George Bush v. Albert Gore · Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“already weighted in favor of accepting questionable signatures,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]equiring the state to provide thousands of petition signers with individual notice that their signatures have been rejected and to afford them an opportunity to present extrinsic evidence during the short thirty-day verification period would impose a significant burden on ... elections officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saucedo v. Gardner“procedures ... allow chief petitioners and members of the public to observe the signature verification process and challenge decisions by county elections officials.”
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.