Hildreth v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““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 be 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 the referendum, and it may be ordered (except as to laws necessary for the immedíate preservation of the public peace, health or safety), either by the petition signed by 5 per cent, of the legal voters or by the legislative assembly as other bills are enacted. Referendum petitions shall be 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 bill 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 ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brickhouse v. Hill

2. ““The legislature has provided no record whereby the fact can be definitely ascertained whether or not the publication has been made as directed, therefore it would be disastrous to hold that a statute or amendment to the constitution could be defeated by showing that the publication in fact was not made in accordance with the specified terms.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gottstein v. Lister

3. ““It would therefore be doing violence to the design of the framers of the amendment to attribute to them an intention to require a less number of votes to adopt an amendment proposed by the people through the power of the initiative than one submitted by the General Assembly.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brickhouse v. Hill