Richards v. Lavelle’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 144 · 1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2021
5 federal appellate · 10 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Vance v. Bradley · Bullock v. Carter · Illinois State Board of Elections v. Socialist Workers Party · American Party of Texas v. White
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n minimum requirement cases, of course, a compelling state interest is required, but it is obvious that the removal sanction rationally serves the legitimate interest of the state in assuring that the candidate has demonstrated a significant modicum of support. If the minimum requirement itself is valid, then removal rationally serves the state's interest by preventing one who has not demonstrated sufficient support from gaining a place on the ballot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the method chosen ... does not serve in any rational way the administrative efficiency interest which the state legitimately asserts ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Georges v. Carney
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.