Boyd v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Amador Valley Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Equalization (1978), 36 Cal. 2d 136 - Fox Bakersfield Theatre Corp. v. City of Bakersfield (1950)
42 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Fatjo v. Pfister
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Initiative Measure Providing for Adoption of Gross Receipts Act”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Its purpose is to throw additional safeguards around the operation of the initiative law. Its design is to give to the elector additional information other than that afforded by the Constitution as to the nature of the petition which he is asked to sign. No elector can intelligently exercise his rights under the initiative law without a knowledge of the petition which he is asked to sign, and any legislation which will increase the facilities of the elector to acquire such information is well within the terms of the Constitution permitting the enactment of legislation to facilitate the operation of this provision of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Jordan“Section 1197b of the Political Code provides that, 'Across the top of each page after the first page of every initiative ... petition or section thereof which may be prepared and circulated in accordance with law there shall be printed in eighteen-point gothic type a short title, in not to exceed twenty words, showing the nature of the petition and the subject to which it relates.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.