Hodges v. Dawdy’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Jegley v. Picado (2002), McKenzie v. Burris (1973)
80 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 Hobbs v. McLean · Threadgill v. Cross, Secretary of State · Van Horn v. State ex rel. Abbott · State ex rel. Halliburton v. Roach · Road Improvement District No. 1 v. Glover
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The legislative powers of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of the Senate and House of Representatives, but the people of each municipality, each county and of the State, reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls as independent of the legislative assembly, and also reserve power at their 'own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly. The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and not more than 8 per cent, of the legal voters shall be required to propose any measure by such petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions shall he filed with the Secretary of State not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon. “The second power is a referendum, and it may he ordered (except as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety), either hy the petition signed hy 5 per cent, of the legal voters or hy the legislative assembly as other hills are enacted. Eeferendum petitions shall he filed with the Secretary of State not more than ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislative assembly which passed the hill on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the Governor shall not extend to measures referred to the people. All elections on measures re”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whittemore v. Terral“The amendment does not confer power. It reserves it. Now, the sovereign power rested, both before and since the adoption of this amendment, in the people of the whole state. Power was delegated by the whole people to the General Assembly; but the purpose of this amendment was to reserve to themselves the legislative power. In other words, they withdrew the exclusive legislative power theretofore delegated to the General Assembly, and reserved the right to exercise it themselves under certain conditions. The people of each municipality and county, never having possessed the sovereign legislative power, apart from the other people of the state, could not reserve such power. It could be conferred upon them by the people of the whole state; but they could not reserve that which they did not possess and had no power to take for themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are not inconsistent with the general laws of the State.”
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.