Federal Election Commission v. Central Long Island Tax Reform Immediately Committee’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 45 · 1980
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably California Medical Association v. Federal Election Commission (1981), Marchi v. Board of Cooperative Educational Services (1999)
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Hagans v. Lavine
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]f speakers are not granted wide latitude to disseminate information without government interference, they will steer far wider of the unlawful zone.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for communications that in express terms advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate for federal office.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“constitutional prerequisite to exercise of jurisdiction by federal courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.