State ex rel. Halliburton v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Hodges v. Dawdy (1912), State ex rel. Barrett v. Hitchcock (1912)
53 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Ware v. Hylton
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, as applicable to this subject they must include in the petitions the full text of the amendment that is desired to be made as to Section 7 of Article 4 of the Constitution of this State changing and altering the method and plan of redistricting the senatorial districts, and instead of delegating the power to the General Assembly, and in the event of its failure to perform the duty to certain designated officials. That such districts shall be divided by a law enacted through the initiative and referendum providing for the division of such senatorial districts . After having amended the Constitution in this manner then the way is perfectly clear to propose through the initiative, not a constitutional amendment, but a legislative act dealing with the subject of dividing and defining the boundaries of the senatorial districts in this State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The purpose of constitutional provisions and amendments to the Constitution is to prescribe the permanent framework and a uniform system of government, and to assign to the different departments thereof their respective powers and duties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stovall v. Gartrell
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.