Stumpf v. Lau’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995), Nevadans for Nevada v. Beers (2006)
29 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 Powell v. McCormack · In Re Initiative Petition No. 349, State Question No. 642 · 592 So. 2d 225 - Advisory Opinion to Atty. Gen.-Limited Political Terms · In Re Initiative Petition No. 344, State Question No. 630 · Lundberg v. Koontz
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a proposed amendment to the state Constitution by its terms specifically and necessarily violates a command or limitation of the Federal Constitution, * * * the prescribed legal procedure for submitting such a proposed amendment to the electorate * * * may be enjoined at the suit of proper parties in order to avoid the expense of submission, when the amendment, if adopted, would palpably violate the paramount law and would inevitably be futile and nugatory and incapable of being made operative under any conditions or circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [Nevada] term limits initiative clearly and 'palpably' violates the qualifications clauses of Article I of the United States Constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thorsted v. Gregoire“[n]ot even Congress has the power to alter qualifications for these constitutional federal officers”
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.