Allen v. Burkhart’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022
1 district · 7 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 32 Cal. 2d 330 - McFadden v. Jordan · Gage v. Jordan · In Re Todd · Latting v. Cordell · Tate v. Logan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever any measure shall be initiated by the people in the manner provided by law , . . . same shall be submitted to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular election; provided, the Governor shall have power, in his discretion, to call a special election to vote upon such questions, or to designate the mandatory primary election as a special election for such purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. NICHOLS v. ZIRIAX“[i]f no [slate of] candidates [for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Guam] receive[s] a majority of the votes cast in any election, . . . a runoff election shall be held.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gutierrez v. Ada“make suitable provisions for carrying into effect”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. NICHOLS v. ZIRIAX
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.