Parrish v. Lamm’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably People v. Czemerynski (1990), Committee for Better Health Care for All Colorado Citizens v. Meyer (1992)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 Dandridge v. Williams · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutory words and phrases should be given their ordinary and accepted meaning unless they have acquired a technical meaning through legislative definition or judicial construction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it does not provide fair warning of the conduct prohibited or if its standards are so ill-defined as to create a danger of arbitrary and capricious enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No bill, except general appropriation bills, shall be passed containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.”
2 later decisions 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.