Jones v. Polhill’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2020
1 district · 18 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 People ex rel. Elder v. Sours · Matter of Title, Ballot Title, Sub. Cl. · Creacy v. Industrial Commission · Margolis v. District Court in & for the County of Arapahoe · In re Breene
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fraud and surprise occasioned by the inadvertent passage of a surreptitious provision coiled up in the folds of a complex [initiative].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“voter surprise and fraud occasioned by the inadvertent passage of a surreptitious provision 'coiled up in the folds' of a complex initiative.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No measure shall be proposed by petition containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. ...”
3 later decisions 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.