Dobrovolny v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.3d 1111 · 1997
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Initiative & Referendum Institute v. Walker (2006), Irving Houston Hawkins v. Franklin Freeman (1999)
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · Meyer v. Grant · Taxpayers United for Assessment Cuts v. Austin · Duggan v. Beermann
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clearly, the right to a state initiative process is not a right guaranteed by the United States Constitution, but is a right created by state law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because article III, § 2 [of the Nebraska Constitution], as interpreted by the Nebraska Supreme Court in Duggan, does not involve restrictions on the circulation of petitions nor the communication of speech, political or otherwise, we affirm the district court's conclusion that the provision does not violate the First Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bernbeck v. Gale“the difficulty of the [initiative] process alone is insufficient to implicate the First Amendment, as long as the communication of ideas associated with the circulation of petitions is not affected”
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.