Colorado Common Cause v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Citizens for Responsible Government State Political Action Committee v. Donetta Davidson (2000), Thiret v. Kautzky (1990)
6 federal appellate · 55 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
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 431 (§ 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971) · 2 U.S.C. § 441B (§ 316 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971)
Relies on Federal Election Commission v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc. · People v. District Court, Second Judicial District · Travelers Indemnity Company v. Barnes · United States v. Healey · People v. Guenther
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he meaning attributed to words or phrases found in one part of a statute should be ascribed to the same words or phrases throughout the statute, absent any manifest indication to the contrary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he use of 'includes' in the statutory definition . . . connotes that something else is encompassed by the definition beyond what was previously covered by the immediately preceding language.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the opinion is obviously entitled to respectful consideration as a contemporaneous interpretation of the law by a governmental official charged with the responsibility of such interpretation”
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.