Davidson v. Sandstrom’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
6 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Developmental Pathways v. Ritter (2008), Lobato v. State (2009)
6 district · 35 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 U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton · Chesney v. Byram · Crowe v. Wheeler · Colorado Project-Common Cause v. Anderson · 125 So. 2d 846 - Gray v. Bryant
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construe the amendment in light of the objective sought to be achieved and the mischief to be avoided by the amendment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lobato v. State · Gessler v. Smith“reasonably susceptible to more than one interpretation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court may ascertain the intent of the voters by considering other relevant materials such as the ballot title and submission clause and the biennial 'Bluebook,/ which is the analysis of ballot proposals prepared by the legislature.”
3 later decisions 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.