9 Cal. 3d 96 - Thompson v. Mellon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 129 - Ector v. City of Torrance (1973), 14 Cal. 3d 661 - Gould v. Grubb (1975)
103 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Dunn v. Blumstein · Bullock v. Carter · 4 Cal. 3d 716 - Zeilenga v. Nelson · 352 F. Supp. 85 - Walker v. Yucht · 4 Cal. 3d 714 - Camara v. Mellon
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Unquestionably, the court was greatly troubled in Dunn by the fact that the voter residence requirement tended to exclude many voters who were wholly qualified to exercise their franchise. But although a residence requirement may be ill-suited as a woier-qualification device, its value as applied to candidates seems unquestioned. Any person with rudimentary awareness of issues and candidates can cast his ballot, and an uninformed vote is easily cancelled by an intelligent one. But voters are not responsible for managing civic affairs and making the day-to-day decisions which municipal officials must face. * * * “Indeed, residence requirements for candidates for public office play an important role in our state and federal constitutional schemes. For example, the President of the United States must have been a fourteen-year resident in this country (U.S.Const., art. II, § 1, cl. 5), a United States Senator a nine-year resident (id., art. 1, § 3, cl. 3), a United States Representative a seven-year resident (id., art. I, § 2, cl. 2). * * Thompson v. Mellon, 9 Cal.3d 96, 113 , 107 Cal.Rptr. 20, 32-33 , 507 P.2d 628, 640-641 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Triano v. Massion
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.