Geary v. Renne’s Empirical Analysis
911 F.2d 280 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 5 U.S.C. § 7326
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · New York v. Ferber · Anderson v. Celebrezze
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[TJhere is all the difference in the world between refusing to delegate to political parties the decision as to which candidates appear on the general-election ballot [by conducting primaries] and prohibiting political party organizations from announcing their views on the merits of candidates seeking public office.... The issue ... is not a matter of how to define or structure a “nonpartisan election.” It is instead a question of the right of individuals to band together [in political parties] and express their collective views on a matter of public concern.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The State of California cannot have it both ways. If it wants to elect its judges, it cannot deprive its citizens of a full and robust election debate. It cannot forbid speech by persons or groups who wish to make their views, support, or endorsements known. Nor can it complain if the citizens wish to make their electoral judgments based in part on recommendations made by political parties. If the people are to be given the right to choose their judges directly, they are fi’ee, rightly or wrongly, to consider the political philosophy of the candidates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The basis of [respondents'] complaint as it relates to this appeal was the refusal of [petitioners], the City and County of San Francisco and the San Francisco Registrar of Voters, to permit official political party and party central committee endorsements of candidates for nonpartisan office to be printed in the San Francisco Voter Pamphlet in connection with elections scheduled for June 2 and November 3, 1987. [Petitioners] based their refusal to print party endorsements on the language of article II, § 6(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Renne v. Geary
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.