Bullock v. State of Minnesota’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 258 · 1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2001
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Williams v. Rhodes · Bullock v. Carter · Trafelet v. Thompson · Antonio v. Kirkpatrick
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he requirement that candidates be eligible to practice law in Minnesota clearly advances the state's compelling need to obtain candidates [for the office of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice] who are qualified to understand and deal with the complexities of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Connor v. Nevada“The equal protection clause does not prohibit the legislature from adopting a more rigorous policy for assuring excellence in the judiciary than for other elective offices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Connor v. Nevada
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.