Stickler v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “power to approve or reject by referendum any act of the general assembly, except as hereinafter provided.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and Sara E. Baker v. John R. Ashcroft · Calzone v. Ashcroft

2. “'[p]urpose of referendum is to suspend or annul a law which has not gone into effect and to provide the people a means of giving expression to a legislative proposition, and require their approval before it become[s] operative as a law[.]'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and Sara E. Baker v. John R. Ashcroft

3. “prepare and transmit to the attorney general a summary statement of the measure,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and Sara E. Baker v. John R. Ashcroft