Putter v. Montpelier Public School System

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing as fatal flaw plaintiff’s failure to allege that voters changed their vote due to reading school board newsletter that took positions on upcoming election
• “Voiding an election and ordering a new one represents one of the more extreme remedial measures available to a court. . . . Nothing is so profoundly destabilizing to the local political process . . . .”
• this Court may affirm correct judgment even though grounds stated in support of it are erroneous
• “The United States Constitution protects the rights of all qualified citizens to vote in state and federal elections … and to have their votes counted without debasement or dilution.” (citation omitted)
• we may affirm correct judgment even though grounds for it are erroneous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Young v. Red Clay Consolidated School District
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2017-05-24· cited 18×
• Office of Hawaiian Affairs v. Cayetano
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2000-08-28· cited 10×
• Bigelow v. Bigelow
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-06-16· cited 5×
• Kurt Daims & Craig Newbert v. Town of Brattleboro
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-04-29· cited 5×
• Theodore de Macedo Soares v. Barnet Fire District 2
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2022-07-22· cited 4×
• H. Brooke Paige v. State of Vermont
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2024-02-16· cited 4×
• Opinion No.
  Arkansas Attorney General Reports· 2000-08-11
• Attorney General Opinion No.
  Kansas Attorney General Reports· 2001-03-21
• kehoe v. beshay
  Vermont Superior Court· 2024-03-15
• roxbury v. montpelier-roxbury
  Vermont Superior Court· 2024-05-09
• Luna v. City of Burlington
  Vermont Superior Court· 2021-07-19
• Skiff v. South Burlington School Dist.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2017-12-12
• Paige v. State of Vermont
  Vermont Superior Court· 2018-03-16
• In Re Hill Recount
  Vermont Superior Court· 2024-11-14

Cites

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

• Buckley v. Valeo
  Supreme Court· 1976-02-27· cited 4,982×
• Wilson v. Garcia
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-17· cited 4,134×
• Reynolds v. Sims
  Supreme Court· 1964-10-12· cited 3,703×
• Felder v. Casey
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-22· cited 1,126×
• Allen v. State Board of Elections
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 887×
• Burnett v. Grattan
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 447×
• Hadley v. Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City
  Supreme Court· 1970-02-25· cited 432×
• Lloyd T. Griffin v. Robert F. Burns, Etc., Thomas A. McCormick
  First Circuit· 1978-01-19· cited 212×
• Stanson v. Mott
  California Supreme Court· 1976-06-22· cited 166×
• Mary Fishe Bell v. J. W. Southwell
  Fifth Circuit· 1967-04-14· cited 94×
• Hadnott v. Amos
  Supreme Court· 1969-03-25· cited 93×
• Robert Hennings v. Harry Grafton, in Capacity as County Clerk
  Seventh Circuit· 1975-11-11· cited 88×
• Smith v. Cherry
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-11-27· cited 71×
• Gochey v. Bombardier, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-02-09· cited 44×
• McGill v. Ryals
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-17· cited 42×
• Smith v. Paris
  M.D. Alabama· 1966-08-22· cited 37×
• Mountain States Legal Foundation v. Denver School District 1
  D. Colorado· 1978-10-28· cited 27×
• Carter v. City of Las Cruces
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1996-03-08· cited 21×
• John W. Saxon v. Jasper Fielding
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-03-20· cited 17×
• Alabama Libertarian Party v. City of Birmingham
  N.D. Alabama· 1988-09-06· cited 17×