Baer v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 471 · 1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Rainbow Coalition of Oklahoma v. Oklahoma State Election Board (1988), Green Party of New York State v. New York State Board of Elections (2004)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown · Wesberry v. Sanders · Jenness v. Fortson
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.
“access to minimal information about political party affiliation is the key to successful political organization and campaigning.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'any political organization which at the last preceding gubernatorial election was represented on the official ballot either by regular party candidates or by individual nominees only if it cast for its gubernatorial candidate at least ten percent of the total gubernatorial vote cast in the state at such election.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state has a substantial interest in preventing `the purely frivolous and insubstantial attempts to designate party affiliation on the registration form.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.