[EL] question on US Supreme Court and election law cases

[Richard Winger]

Although in general, the US Supreme Court is more inclined to grant cert when there is a split in circuits, I have been noticing that that generality doesn't seem to be very true for election law cases.

Is anyone aware of any article or study on the extent to which US Supreme Court grants of cert are or are not very much linked to circuit splits?

If there is no study, I am inclined to do my own study.  I remember once someone on this list pointed to a list of all election law cases that have ever had full decisions from the US Supreme Court.  But I can't remember where that list is, or who has it.  I would only be interested in the part of the list of all election law cases that got full decisions from the US Supreme Court for the period 1976 to the present, because before 1976 election law cases involving the constitutionality of state laws didn't generally go to US Courts of Appeals.  Thank you very much.

Richard Winger

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