30 Cal. 3d 638 - Assembly v. Deukmejian’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Branch v. Smith (2003), 4 Cal. 4th 668 - Butt v. State of California (1992)
145 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 Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Wesberry v. Sanders · White v. Regester · Whitcomb v. Chavis
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not in bad faith, and not with intent to evade the effect of the referendum petition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the year following the year in which the national census is taken ..., the Legislature shall adjust the boundary lines of the ... Congressional ... districts ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“As the Secretary of State has pointed out, 'In a REFERENDUM, VOTERS are asked to APPROVE the BILL which the Legislature has enacted (" YES " VOTE ) or to DISAPPROVE (" NO " VOTE ) .... The question which is put to the voters is " SHALL (the bill) BECOME LAW ? ( YES or NO ).”
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.