Boucher v. Engstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Trustees for Alaska v. State (1987), McAlpine v. University of Alaska (1988)
1 district · 41 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 Colorado State Civil Service Employees Ass'n v. Love · Bowe v. Secretary of Commonwealth · 51 Ill. 2d 103 - Bridgewater v. Hotz · 4 Cal. 3d 108 - City of Los Angeles v. Shell Oil Co. · County of Cameron v. Wilson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The initiative shall not be used to dedicate revenues, make or repeal appropriations, create courts, define the jurisdiction of courts or prescribe tlieir rules, or enact local or special legislation. The referendum shall not be applied to dedications of revenue, to appropriations, to local or special legislation, or to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ll doubts as to all technical deficiencies or failure to comply with the exact letter of procedure will be resolved in favor of [preserving the initiative].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“only a limited number of geographical areas, rather than being widespread in its operation throughout the state”
2 later decisions 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.