Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
539 federal appellate · 235 district · 350 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,790 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), United States v. Stevens (2010)
539 federal appellate · 235 district · 350 state decisions — followed in 36 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
reviewedWashington State Republican Party v. Washington (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Salerno · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
Cited together with United States v. Salerno · United States v. Stevens · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Ward v. Rock Against Racism
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 1,790 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“threaten to short circuit the democratic process by preventing laws embodying the will of the people from being implemented in a manner consistent with the Constitution”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is unconstitutional in all of its applications.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a `substantial number' of [the law's] applications [to other individuals] are unconstitutional, `judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep.'”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.