Duke v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Storer v. Brown · Bullock v. Carter · 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence before this Court suggests that, at best, the meeting of the Presidential Candidate Selection Committee provides a definite meeting time for decision for political parties to transmit the names of their presidential preference primary candidates to the Secretary of State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duke v. Smith“the selection committee will reconvene ... to reconsider placing the candidate's name on the ballot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duke v. Smith
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.