Lawrence v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Victoria Buckley, Secretary of State of Colorado, v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc. · Western Devcor, Inc. v. City of Scottsdale · Cottonwood Development v. Foothills Area Coalition of Tucson, Inc. · Open Primary Elections Now v. Bayless · Bryan v. Nelson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is doubt about requirements of ordinances, charters, statutes or the constitution concerning only the form and manner in which the power of an initiative or referendum should be exercised, these requirements shall be broadly construed, and the effect of a failure to comply with these requirements shall not destroy the presumption of validity of citizens’ signatures, petitions or the initiated or referred measure, unless the ordinance, charter, statute or constitution expressly and explicitly makes ... fatal [any] departure from the terms of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forszt v. Rodriguez
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.