Riddle v. Hickenlooper’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.3d 922 · 2014
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley · Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission · Nordlinger v. Hahn · Davis v. Federal Election Commission
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statutory classification might advance the State's asserted interest if write-ins, unaffiliated candidates, or minor-party nominees were more corruptible (or appeared more corruptible) than their Republican or Democratic opponents. But the Defendants have never made such a suggestion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“never upheld the constitutionality of a law that imposes different contribution limits for candidates who are competing against each other,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Court has yet to apply strict scrutiny to contribution limit challenges-employing [closely drawn scrutiny] instead,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Schickel v. Dilger
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.