130 Or. App. 1 - Lowe v. Keisling’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on New York v. United States · Oregon v. Hass · Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company v. State of Oregon · Kadderly v. Portland · State v. Montez
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[t]he people reserve to themselves the initiative power, which is to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and enact or reject them at an election independent of the Legislative Assembly." (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“as dealing with and defining limitations on how state and local governments in Oregon can treat homosexuals and the subject of homosexuality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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