Hernett v. Meier’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2020
10 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 32 Cal. 2d 330 - McFadden v. Jordan · Barnes v. State, Ex Rel. Pinkney · Klosterman v. Marsh · Morford v. Pyle · Dawson v. Meier
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All decisions of the secretary of state in the petition process are subject to review by the supreme court in the exercise of original jurisdiction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The statutory requirement that `each copy of any such petition before being filed must have attached thereto an affidavit to the effect that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that each such person is a qualified elector' does not hamper, restrict, or impair the exercise of the rights reserved to the people by the Constitution, if such affidavit is made on information and belief. Any person who circulates a copy of a petition in any neighborhood, or any person who has information upon which he can form a belief, can make such an affidavit in compliance with the statute as we construe it, and, as so construed, it is a reasonable constitutional regulation and a valid statute. " (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““So the Constitution places upon the Secretary of State the duty of determining, in the first place, whether the petitions conform to the requirements of the Constitution and the laws of this State. In the discharge of such responsibility placed upon him, the Secretary of State must exercise a certain amount of discretion. Can we say that he has abused this discretion in passing upon the petitions here under consideration? We do not believe that an abuse of discretion has been shown.” 173 N.W.2d at 918 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCarney v. Meier
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.