Adams v. Bolin’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 district · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Canon School District No. 50 v. W.E.S. Construction Co. (1994), State v. Hansen (2007)
2 district · 122 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 City of Phoenix v. Yates · Gherna v. State · Renck v. Superior Court of Maricopa County · Automatic Registering MacHine Co. v. Pima County · People Ex Rel. Thomson v. Barnett
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of express statutory power, the courts are without jurisdiction to interfere, whether by injunction or otherwise, with the exercise of the legislative function or with the enactment of legislation.” 74 Ariz. at 285 , 247 P.2d at 628 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The whole number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the general election last preceding the filing of any initiative ... petitions on a state ... measure shall be the basis on which the number of qualified electors required to sign such petitions shall be computed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(6) [Veto and repealing power] The veto power of the Governor, or the power of the Legislature, to repeal or amend, shall not extend to initiative or referendum measures approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors.”
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.