Benson v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Board of County Commissioners, Costilla County v. Costilla County Conservancy District (2004), Tanner v. Town Council of Town of East Greenwich (2005)
2 district · 33 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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Open Meetings Law ... reflects the considered judgment of the Colorado electorate that democratic government best serves the commonwealth if its decisional processes are open to public serutiny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Megislative committee chairmen, as a practical matter, are rarely able to predict with certainty which matters will be considered at a particular meeting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“interfere with the ability of public officials to perform their duties in a reasonable manner.”
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.