Clements v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2002
14 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 People ex rel. Cant v. Crossley · Savage v. Wallace · Hutto v. Walker County · Warfield v. Vandiver · Nesbit v. People
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.
““In submitting propositions for the amendment of the constitution, the legislature is not in the exercise of its legislative power, or of any sovereignty of the people that has been intrusted to it, but is merely acting under a limited power, conferred upon it by the people, and which might with equal propriety have been conferred upon either house, or upon the governor, or upon a special commission, or any other body or tribunal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon shall approve and ratify * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Bolin
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.