6 Utah 2d 329 - Shriver v. Bench’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2012
23 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 112 Cal. App. 2d 719 - Collins v. City & County of San Francisco · Glass v. Smith · Taxpayers' Association v. City of Houston · 155 Ohio St. 529 - State Ex Rel. Sharpe v. Hitt · 3 Utah 2d 1 - Dewey v. Doxey-Layton Realty Co.
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.
“`of such complexity that it is not practical for the public to give it sufficient time and attention to make a proper determination of the matter.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It entrusts to those who are given that duty under the charter the responsibility of either functioning in accordance with the will of the electorate or being held accountable at the next election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Manning“may require any law or ordinance passed by the law making body of said legal subdivision to be submitted to the voters thereof before such law or ordinance shall take effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Manning
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.