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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”

20002010202020301.5k

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.