Georges v. Carney’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 297 · 1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2018
10 federal appellate · 3 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Harris v. McRae · United States v. Carolene Products Co. · Vance v. Bradley · Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he parties to this litigation agree that there is no constitutional right to use the ballot box as a forum for advocating a policy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“there is no constitutional right to use the ballot box as a forum for advocating a policy . and [a state] therefore has no constitutional obligation to allow advisory questions to be placed on the ballot”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“forbids government to interfere with the competition of ideas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Finzer v. Barry
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.