31 Cal. 3d 1 - Brosnahan v. Eu’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 336 - Raven v. Deukmejian (1990), 32 Cal. 3d 236 - Brosnahan v. Brown (1982)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 11 Cal. 3d 801 - Clean Air Constituency v. California State Air Resources Board · 22 Cal. 3d 208 - AMADOR VALLEY JT. UN. HIGH SCH. v. State Bd. of Equal. · Amador Valley Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Equalization · 64 Cal. 2d 529 - Mulkey v. Reitman · 25 Cal. 3d 33 - Fair Political Practices Commission v. Superior Court
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is usually more appropriate to review constitutional and other challenges to ballot propositions or initiative measures after an election rather than to disrupt the electoral process by preventing the exercise of the people's franchise, in the absence of some clear showing of invalidity [citations]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]ime is lacking for the careful study and consideration, the collegial discussion, and the mutual criticism of opinion drafts which an issue of this importance requires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]n initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not be submitted to the electors or have any effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.