Four-County Metropolitan Capital Improvement District v. Board of County Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Community Communications Company Inc v. City of Boulder Colorado (1982), Denver Urban Renewal Authority v. Byrne (1980)
2 district · 53 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 City and County of Denver v. Sweet · City & County of Denver v. Lynch · City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Davis v. City and County of Denver · City & County of Denver v. Hallett
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is the intention of this article to grant and confirm to the people of all municipalities coming within its provisions the full right of self-government in both local and municipal matters and the enumeration herein of certain powers shall not be construed to deny such cities and towns, and to the people thereof, any right or power essential or proper to the full exercise of such right."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"An act or statute may be constitutional in one part and unconstitutional in another, and, if severable, the invalid may be stricken and the valid left stand. 6 R.C.L., p. 121, § 121. The power of the court to make such a decision rests primarily upon legislative intent. If we may reasonably presume that the General Assembly would have passed this Act with the commissioners eliminated and the sole power to fix the amount of the allowance vested in the county judge, we may thus emasculate, and thus sustain it. Id. § 122, p. 123. If the invalid portion of an act was apparently an inducement to the passage of the valid, the statute is not severable. Id. § 123, p. 125. Nor can an essential part of an act, which colors the whole be stricken as invalid and the remainder sustained. Id. § 125, p. 127." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hat which is of common knowledge to an interested public can be judicially noticed.”
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.