People v. YDM’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2021
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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Patterson v. New York · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Bain Peanut Co. v. Pinson · Colorado State Civil Service Employees Ass'n v. Love
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.
“The people of Colorado, in adopting the state constitution , created the General Assembly and vested it with plenary power to adopt general laws, subject only to the restraints and limitations of the state and federal constitutions. The General Assembly, therefore, may enact any law not expressly or inferentially prohibited by the constitution of the state or of the nation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is not manifestly unfair to place on the child the burden to show her absences from school were excused, for the facts which prove or disprove a claimed excuse are uniquely within the knowledge of the child....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Drake“prove a negative in situations where a thorough investigation could unearth no evidence,” thus imposing on the state”
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.