Volle v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. · McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission · Federal Election Commission v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc.
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.
“although there are First Amendment restrictions on what a state can do, a public filing requirement in an issue — only election is not wholly prohibited”
2 later decisions 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.