less drastic
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 410 U.S. 752 - Rosario v. Rockefeller · 1973Most cited · 938 citing opinions
of protecting the State's interest: greater reliance on the summary disenrollment procedures of § 332 of the State's election law and loyalty oaths, restrictive party affiliation rules optional for those parties who wish them, limitation of the statute's operation to persons with pre-existing party affiliations, and criminal sanctions for fraudulent participation in the electoral process.
How often courts cite the case defining “less drastic”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “less drastic” — 938 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.