Billings v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2016
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Colorado Project-Common Cause v. Anderson · Burks v. City of Lafayette · City of Colorado Springs v. Public Utilities Commission · Yenter v. Baker · Baker v. Bosworth
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be liberally construed so as not to unduly limit or curtail the exercise of the initiative and referendum rights.”
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.