Buckley v. Valeo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting Tillman Act of 1907, War Labor Disputes Act of 1943 and Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 barred corporate and labor contributions
• detailing how “[t]he material available to the court looks both ways”
• “This opinion is per curiam. That term is conventionally reserved for cases of lesser significance.”
• “No party has been joined in a civil enforcement action initiated by the Commission.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

99 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
  Supreme Court· 2010-01-21· cited 1,732×
• McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
  Supreme Court· 2003-12-10· cited 740×
• Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-24· cited 485×
• Home Box Office, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, Professional Baseball, Intervenors
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-05-20· cited 403×
• Randall v. Sorrell
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-26· cited 254×
• California Medical Ass'n v. Federal Election Commission
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-26· cited 244×
• New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce v. New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-02-06· cited 163×
• Texas Democratic Party v. Benkiser
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-08-03· cited 129×
• The Ripon Society, Inc. v. National Republican Party the Ripon Society, Inc. v. National Republican Party
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-02-23· cited 117×
• Wendy Wagner v. Federal Election Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 2015-07-07· cited 113×
• Daggett v. Commission on Governmental Ethics & Election Practices
  First Circuit· 1999-04-09· cited 105×
• Washington State Republican Party v. Public Disclosure Commission
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-07-27· cited 88×
• McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
  District of Columbia· 2003-05-01· cited 85×
• Consumer Financial Protection v. Chance Gordon
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-04-14· cited 81×
• Community-Service Broadcasting of Mid-America, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-09-29· cited 69×
• John Doe, Inc. v. Drug Enforcement Administration
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-04-27· cited 66×
• The Honorable Alcee L. Hastings, U.S. District Judge v. Judicial Conference of the United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1985-08-13· cited 64×
• The City of Piqua, Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Dayton Power and Light Company, Intervenor
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-09-21· cited 59×
• Ramsey Clark v. Francis R. Valeo, Secretary of the United States Senate
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-06-06· cited 58×
• Federal Election Commission v. MacHinists Non-Partisan Political League
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-10-13· cited 57×

Cites

115 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Griswold v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,329×
• Reynolds v. Sims
  Supreme Court· 1964-10-12· cited 3,703×
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1940-05-20· cited 3,669×
• United States v. O'Brien
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-27· cited 3,604×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 3,080×
• Aetna Life Insurance v. Haworth
  Supreme Court· 1937-03-01· cited 3,033×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 2,614×
• Dombrowski v. Pfister
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-26· cited 2,255×
• United States v. Classic
  Supreme Court· 1941-10-13· cited 2,081×
• United States v. Harriss
  Supreme Court· 1954-06-07· cited 1,827×
• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-09· cited 1,826×
• Shelton v. Tucker
  Supreme Court· 1960-12-12· cited 1,729×
• Speiser v. Randall
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 1,658×
• Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-17· cited 1,655×
• Williams v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-15· cited 1,576×
• Police Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 1,516×
• Freedman v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 1,485×
• United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court· 1947-02-10· cited 1,457×