Signorelli v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
637 F.2d 853 · 1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Shapiro v. Thompson · Powell v. McCormack · Steffel v. Thompson · Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations
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.
“No Senator or Representative shall ... be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plac[e] no obstacle between [a candidate] and the ballot or his nomination or his election. He is free to run and the people are free to choose him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“New York's scheme . . . confronts the prospective candidate with a choice: he may run for Congress if he is willing to resign his judgeship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Dunleavy
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.