People Ex Rel. Walker v. Stapleton’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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 City and County of Denver v. New York Trust Company No 642 City and County of Denver · City of Denver v. Hayes · People ex rel. O'Reilly v. Mills · Littlejohn v. People · Speer v. People
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article XX, in providing for the submission of ‘an amendment’ does not permit the submission, as such, of ‘many amendments.’ If more than one be submitted the voter must be enabled to approve or reject them separately, otherwise the will of the electorate cannot be ascertained.””
1 later decision 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.