Clingman Secretary Oklahoma State Election Board et al. v. Beaver et al.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 43 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 372 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party (2008), Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (2008)
122 federal appellate · 43 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBeaver v. Clingman (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY
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 372 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a State's important regulatory interests will usually be enough to justify reasonable, nondiscriminatory restrictions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“which presumably have an incentive to shape the rules of the electoral game to their own benefit.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to run efficient and equitable elections,”
5 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.