People v. Prevost’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2021
23 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Luther v. Borden · Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company v. State of Oregon · People ex rel. Elder v. Sours · Hodges v. Dawdy · State ex rel. Halliburton v. Roach
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he people reserve to themselves the power to propose ... amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of the general assembly." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he people reserve to themselves the power to propose ... amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of the general assembly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“declared ... that municipal elections were local and municipal matters upon which the people of municipalities had the power to legislate”
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.