Holmes v. Appling’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1999
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.
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.
“"* * * [T]he measure * * * is * * * a thorough overhauling of the present constitution, commencing with the customary `The people of Oregon ordain this Constitution,' and including an article providing for the transition period between the date of its adoption and the day it was to go into effect. It is 56 typewritten pages in length. It contains many and important changes in substance, many others in language, removing ambiguities and correcting errors, and still others in the arrangement of its various provisions." Holmes v. Appling, 237 Or. at 552 , 392 P.2d at 639 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“but which stated: The Constitution of the State of Oregon is amended by adoption of the following Constitution of the State of Oregon in lieu of the Constitution of the State of Oregon of 1859, as amended, which is repealed. See Holmes v. Appling, 237 Or. at 552-553 , 392 P.2d at 639 . The court in that case stated: [T]he measure sponsored by the plaintiffs is ... a thorough overhauling of the present constitution and a complete constitution, commencing with the customary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"From the foregoing it appears that Article IV, Section 1, authorizes the use of the initiative as a means of amending the Oregon Constitution, but it contains no similar sanction for its use as a means of revising the constitution." 237 Or. at 550 , 392 P.2d 636 .”
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.