Wilson v. Denver’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Cleve (1999), State v. Johnson (2000)
97 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Avery v. Midland County · Salyer Land Company v. Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District · State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · State v. Rowell
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“always striving to `select the rationale that most likely accomplishes the legislative purpose.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“rely on rules of grammar to aid our construction ... of a statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The election for acequia or community ditch officers under this article shall be held by the outgoing commissioners under rules and regulations to be prescribed by them. Only those having water rights in the acequia or ditch and who are not delinquent in the payment of their assessments, and fail to [sic] proffer such delinquent assessment at the time they offer to vote, shall be allowed to vote; but votes may be cast by written proxy and shall be in proportion to the interest of the voter in the ditch or water, or in proportion to the number or amount of his water rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bounds v. Hamlett
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.