McCaffrey v. Gartley’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2023
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 Baker v. Carr · Coleman v. Miller · Smiley v. Holm · Morris v. Goss · Farris ex rel. Dorsky v. Goss
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.
“The full text of a measure submitted to a vote of the people under the provisions of the Constitution need not be printed on the official ballots, but, until otherwise provided by the Legislature, the Secretary of State shall prepare the ballots in such form as to present the question or questions concisely and intelligibly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether or not such fact or facts [as set forth in an emergency preamble] can constitute an emergency "within the meaning of the Constitution is ... a question of law. These questions of law may be reviewed by this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“particularized interest in this controversy that assures that the issues will be litigated between parties having substantial, adverse interests.”
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.