Clark v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Amador Valley Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Equalization (1978), 3 Cal. 5th 347 - People v. Valencia (2017)
50 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 Wallace v. Zinman · Boyd v. Jordan · 1 Cal. 2d 202 - California Teachers Assn. v. Collins · 139 Cal. App. 200 - Hunt v. Jordan
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we are of the opinion that statutes dealing with the initiative should be liberally construed to permit the exercise by the electors of this most important privilege, we are also of the opinion that statutes passed for the purpose of protecting electors from confusing or misleading situations should be enforced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fails to disclose that any new taxes of any kind are to be imposed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Initiative Measure Providing for Adoption of Gross Receipts Act”
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.