Apodaca v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Unser v. Unser (1974), Valdez v. State (2002)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 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 Shirk v. Lancaster City · City of Pasadena v. Charleville · Fragley v. Phelan · City of Tucson v. Tucson Sunshine Climate Club · Twitchell v. City of Spokane
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A municipality which adopts a charter may exercise all legislative powers and perform all functions not expressly denied by general law or charter.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“express statement of the authority or power denied”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The purpose (referring to the home rule amendments) was to give local communities full power in matters of local concern, that is, in those matters which peculiarly, affected the inhabitants of the locality, not in common with the inhabitants of the whole state. Those matters which affected all of the inhabitants of the state were viewed as state matters, and therefore subject to state control, but those things which did not concern inhabitants of the state other than those residing in the particular community, were sought to be differentiated as local concerns, which under these constitutional provisions were to be regarded as exclusively matters of local self-government * * *.’ ””
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.