Pitman v. Drabelle’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Ritchmount Partnership v. Board of Supervisors of Elections (1978), Horton v. Attorney General (1929)
25 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 Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company v. State of Oregon · In Re Pfahler · McGrew v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · State ex rel. Rodes v. Warner · State ex rel. Kemper v. Carter
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The crux of this case is whether the inclusion in the amended charter of the provisions giving to the people the 'additional right to legislate by the initiative plan is prohibited by the language of the Constitution (Art. 9, sec. 22), which provides for the amendment of the charter of the city of St. Louis.””
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.