Kemper v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2022
16 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 Matter of Title, Ballot Title, Sub. Cl. · In Re the Title, Ballot Title & Submission Clause, & Summary With Regard to a Proposed Petition for an Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Colorado Adding Section 2 to Article VII · In Re the Title, Ballot Title & Submission Clause, & Summary With Regard to a Proposed Petition for an Amendment to the Constitution of the State Adding Subsection (10) to Section 20 of Article X · Aisenberg v. Campbell · In Re the Title, Ballot Title & Submission Clause, & Summary With Regard to a Proposed Petition for an Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Colorado Adding Paragraph (D) Subsection (8) of Section 20 of Article X
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No measure shall be proposed by petition containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w] e must examine sufficiently an initiative's central theme to determine whether it contains hidden purposes under a broad theme.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Christopher Fine v. Steven Ward and Levi Mendyk, In the Matter of the Titles, Ballot Titles, and Submission Clauses for Proposed Initiatives 2021-2022 67, 115, and 128 and Teresa Conley, David Powell, and Jeremiah Barry Title Board: · In the MATTER OF the TITLES, BALLOT TITLES, AND SUBMISSION CLAUSES FOR PROPOSED INITIATIVES 2021-2022 67, 115, AND 128 Christopher Fine v. Steven Ward and Levi Mendyk, and Teresa Conley, David Powell, and Jeremiah Barry, Title Board.“apprise voters of the subject of each measure, so that surreptitious measures that could result in voter surprise or fraud are not placed on the ballot.”
2 later decisions 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.