Cole v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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 Buckley v. Valeo · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Kleindienst v. Mandel
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intent of the Open Meetings Law is that citizens be given the opportunity to obtain information about and to participate in the legislative decision-making process which affects, both directly and indirectly, their personal interests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the formation of public policy is public business and may not be conducted in secret.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a broad range of meetings at which public business is considered,”
2 later decisions 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.