DePaul v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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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.

1. “Banning all contributions is not a narrowly drawn means of furthering a policy of negating the corrupting effect and appearance of large contributions. It totally bans a protected form of political expression and association which is unrelated to the identified interest, and does so despite the availability of more narrowly tailored restrictions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deon v. Barasch

2. “[a]n officer; director; person who directly holds a beneficial interest in or ownership of the securities of an applicant or licensee; person who has a controlling interest in an applicant or licensee, or has the ability to elect a majority of the board of directors of a licensee or to otherwise control a licensee ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deon v. Barasch

3. “[t]he vast majority of these nineteen states-fourteen: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota and West Virginia-do not regulate political contributions by individuals involved in the gaming industry.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deon v. Barasch