59 Cal. App. 396 - People v. Elkus’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1993
13 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 United States v. Fisher · State ex rel. Zent v. Nichols · Spier v. Baker · Commonwealth ex rel. McCormick v. Reeder · People ex rel. Drew v. Rodgers
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It must be held that the proportional representation system of voting provided for in the charter is violative of the elector’s constitutional right to vote at all elections. The power of the people of the state, by constitutional amendment, to authorize municipalities to adopt the Hare system of voting is not doubted, but it is clear that they have not done so. In reaching this conclusion, full consideration has been given to the principle that all laws are presumed to be constitutional and that they are to be declared invalid only when they clearly appear to be so. The court has also given consideration to the practical effect of holding the proportional representation system of voting unconstitutional.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harder v. Denton““Future elections of council members may be conducted under the general laws of the state, if the charter be not amended to provide a different procedure,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harder v. Denton“‘ ‘ The full names of all regularly nominated candidates shall be printed on the official ballots in the alphabetical order of the surnames.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harder v. Denton
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.