Norlund v. Thorpe’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1990
10 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 189 Cal. App. 2d 558 - Mervynne v. Acker · Johnson v. City of San Pablo · 102 Cal. App. 2d 395 - City of Anaheim v. City of Fullerton · Newsom v. Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County · County of San Mateo v. City Council
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intended to vest all power in the city legislative bodies and to exclude the people's right of referendum.”
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.