Uhl v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. Coalition for Economic Equity (1991), Gage v. Jordan (1944)
5 federal appellate · 39 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 Littell v. Board of Supervisors · 55 Cal. App. 611 - Chester v. Hall · 34 Cal. App. 754 - Beecham v. Burns · Territory of New Mexico ex rel. Stockard v. Mayor of Roswell · State ex rel. Mohr v. City of Seattle
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The remaining question in this case is based upon the claim that certain signers of the recall petition requested the clerk to withdraw their names therefrom after the petition was filed with the clerk and before that officer had certified the result of his examination as required by the statute. . . . The clerk is not clothed with authority to alter the petition when it has been filed; he is not authorized to receive extraneous evidence of its contents, or to base his certificate upon statements made to him by electors who have signed it. His certificate must show the result of an examination whereby ‘from the records of registration’ he shall ascertain whether or not ‘said petition’ is signed by the requisite number of qualified voters. In our opinion, the signers of such petitions may not withdraw their names or have their names withdrawn by the clerk at any time after the petition has been filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““# * * In order to accomplish anything, the proponents of a measure must be able to rely upon signatures obtained, and if continually forced to seek new ones to take the place of withdrawals, may never be able to prepare a proper petition within the limited period which usually exists. To permit withdrawals after the petition is completed and filed, and the work of securing signatures abandoned, seems to us to make the system wholly unworkable. We do not believe that this mere implied power of the signer, which is not expressly provided for in our Constitution or statutes, can be used so as to jeopardize the exercise of the constitutional right itself. * * *” (At page 4.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzales v. Wyatt
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.