Cullen v. Auclair’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
December 2007
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Storer v. Brown · Smith v. Allwright · O'BRIEN v. Brown · In re Disbarment of Morton · DeCesare v. Board of Elections
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A more common explanation for judicial restraint in entering the “political thicket” is the belief that a large public interest is served in allowing the political processes to function free from judicial supervision. ...Therefore, political partiesare generally recognized to have certain “inherent powers of self-government” and to be vested with wide discretion to interpret and decide their own regulations, rules and disputes .... Accordingly, in determining whether a particular dispute is a non-justiciable political matter, the focus has been on whether the dispute is an “integral part of the electoral process” or merely involves the internal affairs of the political party. (Enfasis su-plido y citas omitidas.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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