McCormick v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 173 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Click v. Copeland (1992), Matherne v. Wilson (1988)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Perry v. Sindermann · Buckley v. Valeo · Gregg v. Georgia · Elrod v. Burns
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an effort to support or oppose the election of a candidate for political office or to support a particular political party in an election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bode v. Kenner City“McCormick's constitutional rights are no broader than those of other government workers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Matherne v. Wilson
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.