Rosen v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 169 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably United States v. McGhee (1996), Libertarian Party v. Blackwell (2006)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Williams v. Rhodes
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“infringes upon the right of supporters of Independent candidates to meaningfully vote and meaningfully associate by providing a 'voting cue' to Democratic and Republican candidates”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Pjarty identification is the single most important influence on political opinions and voting.... Without a designation next to an Independent’s name on the ballot, the voter has no clue as to what the candidate stands for. Thus, the state affords a crucial advantage to party candidates by allowing them to use a designation, while denying the Independent the crucial opportunity to communicate a designation of their candidacy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the name of each candidate nominated at a primary election and each candidate certified by a party committee . . . shall be printed, in less prominent type face than that in which the candidate's name is printed, the name of the political party by which the candidate was nominated or certified.”
2 later decisions 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.