Partisan office
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 public office for which a candidate may indicate a political party preference on his or her declaration of candidacy and have that preference appear on the primary and general election ballot in conjunction with his or her name."
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How often courts cite the case defining “Partisan office”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Partisan office” — 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.