Ex Parte Braun’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 23 Cal. 3d 296 - Sonoma County Organization of Public Employees v. County of Sonoma (1979), 4 Cal. 4th 389 - Johnson v. Bradley (1992)
81 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 United States v. New Orleans · Fragley v. Phelan · Davies v. City of Los Angeles · People ex rel. Daniels v. Henshaw · Ex Parte Frank
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The meaning of the term ‘municipal affairs,’ as these words are used in the constitutional amendment of 1896, has been considered in several decisions of this court. In discussing the effect of this amendment, this court has always recognized the reason that impelled its adoption. After much public discussion, and upon an exhaustive consideration of the question, it had been decided by this court that the legislature, prior to this amendment, had power, by general laws, to supersede, or take away, without the consent of the municipality, the powers conferred upon it by a special charter. (Thomason v. Ashworth, 73 Cal. 73 [ 14 Pac. 615 ]; People v. Henshaw, 76 Cal. 436 [ 18 Pac. 413 ]; Davies v. Los Angeles, 86 Cal. 37 [ 24 Pac. 771 ].) These decisions had demonstrated that the power given by the constitution to cities to frame charters for their own government for the purpose, as was said in People v. Hoge, 55 Cal. 612, 618 , of emancipating them from the authority and control formerly exercised over them by the legislature in municipal matters, were unavailing if such charters could at once be superseded by any general legislative enactment. Under these circumstances the section of the Constitution providing that all cities and towns and the charters thereof should be subject to and controlled by general laws was amended by the addition of the words ‘except in municipal affairs. ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the municipality cannot exist, and the municipality alone is directly concerned in its preservation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the highest expression of the will of the people of the state”
1 later decision 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.