State v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2023
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 Buckley v. Valeo · Burroughs v. United States · 5 Cal. 3d 509 - Brown v. Superior Court · Dinan v. Swig · Falcon v. Alaska Public Offices Commission
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, disclosure provides the electorate with information `as to where political campaign money comes from and how it is spent by the candidate' in order to aid the voter in evaluating those who seek federal office. It allows voters to place each candidate in the political spectrum more precisely than is often possible solely on the basis of party labels and campaign speeches. The sources of a candidate's financial support also alert the voter to the interests to which a candidate is most likely to be responsive and thus facilitate predictions of future performance in office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where statutes governing the conduct of elections require something to be done before the election, so it might have some influence on the election’s outcome, it is usually held that the time requirement is mandatory. But where it is not to be done until after the election, so that compliance would not affect the result, the provision as to time is generally considered to be directory only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pugh v. Draper City“Our premise is that a valid election is an obvious, if unstated, constitutionally-based eligibility requirement for membership in a legislative body [citing cases]. The legislature’s authority to proscribe certain campaign practices and to promote fair elections ... logically and necessarily implies the power to have unfair elections set aside. 31”
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.