Billington v. Cotner’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably State ex rel. Semik v. Board of Elections (1993), State ex rel. Committee for Charter Amendment v. City of Westlake (2002)
32 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 New England Box Co. v. C & R Construction Co. · In Re Constitutionality of Chapter 315, Laws of 1943 · Byrd v. State Ex Rel. Colquett · State ex rel. Foreman v. Brown · 147 W. Va. 861 - State Ex Rel. Heck's Discount Centers., Inc. v. Winters
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 9, Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, provides that an amendment to a charter of a municipality ‘may be submitted to the electors of a municipality by a two-thirds vote of the legislative authority thereof, and, upon petitions signed by ten per centum of the electors of the municipality setting forth any such proposed amendment, shall be submitted by such legislative authority.’ The manifest object of this constitutional provision is to provide the procedure for the submission of a charter amendment to electors. The requirements are clear and complete, and are not to be added to or subtracted from.” Accord Switzer v. State, ex rel. Silvey (1921), 103 Ohio St. 306 , 314-315, 133 N.E. 552 , 554.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The ordinance providing for the submission of such question shall require that it be submitted to the electors at the next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less than sixty nor more than one hundred and twenty days after its passage; otherwise it shall provide for the submission of the question at a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Council shall be the judge of the election and qualification of its members. A majority of all the acting members elected shall be a quorum to do business but a less number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The affirmative vote of a majority of the acting members of Council shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution and on the passage thereof a vote shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the journal. The Council shall determine its own rules and order of business and shall keep a journal of its proceedings. All meetings of the Council or committees thereof shall be public and any citizen shall have access to the minutes and records thereof at all times.””
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.