Binns v. Hite’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1988
15 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 50 Cal. 2d 693 - Johnson v. Superior Court · 45 Cal. App. 531 - Cohn v. Isensee · Chambers v. Terry · 61 Cal. 2d 103 - Barrett v. Hite
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the necessity of accomplishing the purposes underlying [the section] is weighed against the comparatively slight burdens imposed upon electors who desire to have an incumbent candidate subjected to a write-in vote, we are of the view that the statute is within the bounds of the Legislature's power....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“since the only jurisdiction to which the section applied had 49 municipal judges. ( Id., at pp. 112-113.) [23] Further, the procedure took effect only if a write-in candidate did not file a petition signed by 100 registered voters not less than 45 days before the general election. The court concluded that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not confronted ... with an attempt by the Legislature to abolish write-in votes but rather with a statute regulating the use of such votes....”
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.