7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 44 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 Bullock v. Carter.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bullock v. Carter Anchor | green | “not every limitation or incidental burden on the exercise of voting rights is subject to a stringent standard of review.” | 20 |
| 2 | Fulani v. Krivanek | green | “in election cases, equal protection challenges essentially constitute a branch of the associational rights tree.” | 4 |
| 3 | Reform Party of Allegheny County v. Allegheny County Department of Elections Mark Wolosik, Director of the Allegheny County Department of Elections | green | “burdens require the same level of scrutiny in an equal protection analysis that they do in an associational rights analysis.” | 4 |
| 4 | Patriot Party of Pennsylvania v. Mitchell | green | “it is beyond dispute that pennsylvania's 2 (signature) requirement (for ballot access) is facially valid.” | 4 |
| 5 | Patriot Party of Pennsylvania v. Mitchell | green | “the supreme court has on two separate occasions invalidated facially valid ballot access laws because of their application to a political party.” | 4 |
| 6 | Perry v. Grant | green | “it is not the courts' function to weigh the procedure chosen by the state legislature against the feasibility of less burdensome alternatives it could have chosen.” | 4 |
| 7 | Perry v. Grant | green | “the fact that the total number of signatures required fluctuates with election results does not render it unconstitutional.” | 4 |
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.