Foster v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2018
2 district · 13 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court will not inquire into the substantive validity of a measure- i.e. , into the constitutionality, legality or effect of the measure's language-unless and until the measure is passed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We have no quarrel with those authorities, but they are not dispositive here. A city's practice of naming or renaming streets only through specific ordinances may establish that the activity is `legislation' subject to the initiative and referendum process. Another city's practice of naming and renaming streets only through a process akin to that established for the City of Portland * * * may establish that the activity is `administrative' and not subject to the initiative and referendum process. The point is, whether a particular municipal activity is `administrative' or `legislative' often depends not on the nature of the action but the nature of the legal framework in which the action occurs."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The initiative and referendum powers reserved to the people * * * are further reserved to the qualified voters of each municipality and district as to all local, special and municipal legislation of every character in or for their municipality or district."”
2 later decisions 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.