Federal Election Commission v. Lance’s Empirical Analysis
617 F.2d 365 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2013
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Cort v. Ash · Bouie v. City of Columbia · First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti · United States v. Morton Salt Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“overdrafts in 1974, repaid in 1975, loans made during the 1974 campaign, other extensions of credit made during 1974, and repaid in 1975, and loans made between 1975 and 1977 for the purpose of repaying outstanding campaign debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“435 U.S. at 768 n.2, 98 S.Ct. at 1412 (55 L.Ed.2d 707). Dissenting in First National Bank of Boston, Justice White warned that the combined effect of Buckley v. Valeo and First National Bank of Boston was simply”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it would permit candidates to evade FECA's restrictions on contributions and expenditures by running their campaigns at a deficit and then collecting contributions after the election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.