State Ex Rel. Coll v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Gallegos v. Pueblo of Tesuque (2002), American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Albuquerque (2008)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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 Baker v. Carr · State Ex Rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick · State Ex Rel. Clark v. Johnson · Madrid v. St. Joseph Hospital · Asplund v. Hannett
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear threats to the essential nature of state government guaranteed to . . . citizens under their [c]onstitution— [specifically,] a government in which the three distinct departments, . . . legislative, executive, and judicial, remain within the bounds of their constitutional powers,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“threatens the integrity of state government or the state's definition of itself as sovereign,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“involves a duty that state officials owe to the general public as a whole.”
2 later decisions 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.