909 F. Supp. 863 - Rockefeller v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Bullock v. Carter · Burdick v. Takushi · Illinois State Board of Elections v. Socialist Workers Party · 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only justification appears to be a desire to increase the advantage already enjoyed by the presidential candidate favored by the Party organization,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In those districts in which it is easier to find a needle in haystack than an enrolled Republican, they require signatures from a percentage of enrolled Republicans three times greater than is required in the large majority of congressional districts, where the number of enrolled Republicans approaches or substantially exceeds 100,000 and the difficulty of finding them is greatly reduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“little more than a state-sponsored endorsement of the candidate of the party leadership.”
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.