blanket primary
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 552 U.S. 442 - Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party · 2008Most cited · 1,790 citing opinions
a system in which "any person, regardless of party affiliation, may vote for a party's nominee."
California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U. S. 567, 576, n. 6 (2000).
How often courts cite the case defining “blanket primary”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “blanket primary” — 1,789 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.