Blomquist v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 525 · 1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2024
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Moore v. Ogilvie · Yeomans v. Kentucky · Brown v. Thomson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The court] must first consider the character and magnitude of the asserted injury to the rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments that the plaintiff seeks to vindicate. It then must identify and evaluate the precise interests put forward by the State as justification for the burden imposed by its rule. In passing judgment, the Court must not only determine the legitimacy and strength of each of those interests, it also must consider the extent to which those interests make it necessary to burden the plaintiffs rights. Only after weighing all these factors is the reviewing court in a position to decide whether the challenged provision is unconstitutional.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevents a new party from seeking support at a time when such support is most likely to crystallize--after the established parties have put forth their candidates and platforms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Graves , slip op. at 10. 7 . The court in Graves went on to find that Oklahoma’s failure to articulate “any legitimate interest” to be served by the ballot position statute mandated its invalidation under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Id. at 25. 8 . It is significant that Plaintiffs do not assert in this case that “position bias” somehow prevents them from becoming a “major political party”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.