Kadderly v. Portland’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company v. State of Oregon (1912), Ellingham v. Dye (1912)
1 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Oakland Paving Co. v. Hilton · Constitutional Prohibitory Amendment · Livermore v. Waite · State ex rel. Hudd v. Timme · Gentile v. State
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Jaws proposed and enacted by the people under the initiative ... are subject to the same constitutional limitations as other statutes, and may be amended or repealed by the Legislature at will.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has always been the rule, and is now everywhere understood, that the judgment of the legislative and executive departments as to the wisdom, expediency, or necessity of any given law is conclusive on the courts, and cannot be reviewed or called in question by them.... The powers of the courts do not extend to the mere question of expediency or necessity. Id. at 721.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no question but that all the forms prescribed by the constitution were strictly and accurately observed. i'fi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.