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12 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 354 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Burdick v. Takushi.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burdick v. Takushi Anchor | green | “the character and magnitude of the asserted injury to the rights protected by the first and fourteenth amendments that the plaintiff seeks to vindicate” | 67 |
| 2 | Burdick v. Takushi | green | “narrowly drawn to advance a state interest of compelling importance.” | 58 |
| 3 | Storer v. Brown | green | “as a practical matter, there must be a substantial regulation of elections if they are to be fair and honest and if some sort of order, rather than chaos, is to accompany the democratic processes.” | 43 |
| 4 | Bullock v. Carter | green | “the rights of voters and the rights of candidates do not lend themselves to neat separation; laws that affect candidates always have at least some theoretical, correlative effect on voters.” | 28 |
| 5 | National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson | green | “it is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the 'liberty' assured by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment, which embraces freedom of speech.” | 27 |
| 6 | Anderson v. Celebrezze | green | “the state's important regulatory interests are generally sufficient to justify reasonable, nondiscriminatory restrictions.” | 24 |
| 7 | Anderson v. Celebrezze | green | “identify and evaluate the precise interests put forward by the state as justifications for the burden imposed by its rule.” | 23 |
| 8 | Burdick v. Takushi | green | “it is beyond cavil that 'voting is of the most fundamental significance under our constitutional structure.” | 23 |
| 9 | Anderson v. Celebrezze | green | “character and magnitude of the asserted injury” | 21 |
| 10 | Norman v. Reed | green | “narrowly drawn to advance a state interest of compelling importance.” | 21 |
| 11 | Norman v. Reed | green | “the state's important regulatory interests are generally sufficient to justify” | 11 |
| 12 | Norman v. Reed | green | “reasonable, nondiscriminatory restrictions” | 8 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.