9 Cal. 4th 688 - Rossi v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 11 Cal. 4th 220 - Santa Clara County Local Transportation Authority v. Guardino (1995), 21 Cal. 4th 585 - Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union v. Davis (1999)
133 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 45 Cal. 3d 727 - Lungren v. Deukmejian · 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · Cummings v. The State of Missouri · 47 Cal. 3d 376 - Laurel Heights Improvement Ass'n of San Francisco, Inc. v. Regents of University of California
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has long been our judicial policy to apply a liberal construction to this power wherever it is challenged in order that the right not be improperly annulled. If doubts can reasonably be resolved in favor of the use of this reserve power, courts will preserve it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“one of the most precious rights of our democratic process”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“if a tax measure were subject to referendum, the county's ability to adopt a balanced budget and raise funds for current operating expenses through taxation would be delayed and might be impossible. As a result, the county would be unable to comply with the law or to provide essential services to residents of the county.”
3 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.