State v. Jude’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 453 (§ 403 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971)
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · New York v. Ferber · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota · Anderson v. Celebrezze
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the person knows or has reason to believe is false and that is designed or tends to elect, injure, or defeat a candidate.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“plainly the pattern to which the statute must be trimmed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.