In Re Nader’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2024
9 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. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973A (§ 3 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973G (§ 9 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Commonwealth v. Reed · In Re Nomination of Flaherty · Taxpayers United for Assessment Cuts v. Austin · 333 Pa. Super. 85 - Commonwealth v. Shirey · Commonwealth v. Oliver
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.
“While I note the presence of red circles and “x” marks adjacent to these lines, there was no agreement of counsel as to who made these notations or when they were made. Further, I can find no statute, regulation or other information of which I can take judicial notice that such marks represent strikes by the Secretary of State, and no evidence was presented upon which I could base such a finding. Moreover, even assuming that these marks represent [the Secretary’s] strikes, the lack of any requirement that the Secretary memorialize his actions and the reasons for them in some more formal way strongly suggests that his strikes are intended to be for his administrative use in carrying out his duties under Section 976 of the Election Code, as amended, 25 P.S. § 2936, and that once he accepts nomination papers for filing, our review of any objections to the papers is de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The petition must have appended thereto the affidavit of some person, not necessarily a signer, setting forth all of the following: (i) That the affiant is a resident of the school district referred to in the petition, (ii) The affiant’s residence, giving city, borough or township, with street numbers, if any. (iii) That the signers signed with full knowledge of the purpose of the petition, (iv) That the signers' respective residences are correctly stated in the petition, (v) That the signers all reside in the school district, (vi) That each signer signed on the date set forth opposite signer’s name, (vii) That to the best of the affiant’s knowledge and belief, the signers are residents of the school district. The applicant must then present the signatures to the court of common pleas of the county in which the charter school would be situated. § 1717 — A(i)(5).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... this signature gathering process was the most deceitful and fraudulent exercise ever perpetrated upon this Court. The conduct of the Candidates, through their representatives (not their attorneys), shocks the conscience of the Court. In reviewing signatures, it became apparent that in addition to signing names such as "Mickey Mouse," "Fred Flintstone," "John Kerry," and the ubiquitous "Ralph Nader," there were thousands of names that were created at random and then randomly assigned either existent or nonexistent addresses by the circulators.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.