Rogers v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Miller v. Burk (2008), Nevadans for Nevada v. Beers (2006)
2 district · 39 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 McKay v. Board of Sup'rs of Carson City · Hunt v. Callaghan · McAlpine v. University of Alaska · 105 Cal. App. 3d 813 - State Board of Equalization v. Board of Supervisors of San Diego County · Butte-Silver Bow Local Government v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appropriation is the setting aside from the public revenue of a certain sum of money for a specified object, in such manner that the executive officers of the government are authorized to use that money, and no more, for that object, and no other.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is 'the obligation of the judiciary to uphold the constitutionality of legislative enactments where it is possible to strike only the unconstitutional portions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“initiative legislation is not subject to judicial tampering the substance of an initiative petition should reflect the unadulterated will of the people and should proceed, if at all, as originally proposed and signed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.