Barth v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably City of Scottsdale v. Superior Court (1968), Renck v. Superior Court of Maricopa County (1947)
29 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 State v. Olcott · State ex rel. Bullard v. Osborn · Allen v. State · In Re Miller · Nesbit v. People
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his would run counter to the general spirit of the initiative and referendum, which recognizes "no reason why the interest of a citizen may not be as great in preventing an initiative petition not legally sufficient from being submitted to a vote as in compelling that one legally sufficient should be so submitted."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the court find [sic] that such petition is legally sufficient, the secretary shall then file it, with a certified copy of the judgment attached thereto, as of the date on which it was originally offered for filing in his office; if any petition filed is not legally sufficient, the court may enjoin the secretary or other officers from certifying or printing on the official ballot for the ensuing election the measure proposed or referred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because [t]his would run counter to the general spirit of the initiative and referendum, which recognizes”
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.