Bush v. Gore as Precedent

As Joan Biskupic writes in her Supreme Court blog Court Beat, the case has been cited in over 200 state and federal court decisions since it was issued 9 years ago. Biskupic's post focuses on the role that Justice Antonin Scalia played in the legal battle that resulted in the Supreme Court decision that terminated Florida's recount efforts, and the declared that George W. Bush was the winner of the 2000 presidential election. She also notes that, although the majority opinion stated that "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances", "[t]he 2000 ruling has enhanced the grounds for equal-protections challenges to unreliable voting procedures."