Hazell v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'If, on the effective date of this Act, the Oregon Constitution does not allow limitations on political campaign contributions or expenditures, this Act shall nevertheless be codified and become effective at the time that the Oregon Constitution is found to allow, or is amended to allow, such limitations.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Markley v. Rosenblum

2. “'[t]his Act' [in section 9(f) of Measure 47 (2006) ] [was] evidence that the voters intended and understood that, if and when Measure 47 became operative, it would do so as a whole piece of legislation, not in some piecemeal fashion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Markley v. Rosenblum

3. “[W]e apply a similar method of analysis to statutes enacted by voter-initiated measures as we do to statutes enacted by the legislature, with the goal of discerning the intent of the voters who passed those initiatives into law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 297 Or. App. 126 - State v. Link