State v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2015
8 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee · Austin v. Michigan State Chamber of Commerce · United States v. Morrison · Clontz v. Burchett
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he use of funds to support a political candidate is `speech'; independent campaign expenditures constitute `political expression "at the core of our electoral process and of the First Amendment freedoms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A candidate who is running for legislative office or a statewide office, except a candidate for a vacant office being filled by special election, may not accept or solicit any campaign contribution during a regular or special session of the Legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Campaign Financing Act does in fact have the effect of cutting off all sources of campaign financing for any period of time in which the legislature is in regular or special session.”
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.