Stevens v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1993
22 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 The People v. . Simeon Draper · Hickman v. City of Kansas · Willis v. Mabon · Swift & Co. v. City of Newport News · Beecher v. Baldy
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`put it beyond the power of the legislature to render [the initiative, referendum, and recall powers] nugatory by refusing to enact legislation to carry them into effect.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Secretary of State * * shall be guided by the general laws and the act submitting this amendment, until legislation shall be especially provided therefor.””
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.