Polhill v. Buckley’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2021
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Romer Governor of Colorado v. Evans · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · Burke v. Barnes · McKee v. City of Louisville · Dodge v. Department of Social Services
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the enactment of [ legislation ] by the general assembly, ... each step must be taken as the constitution provides, yet while the measure is ... in process of legislation , the general assembly is the judge of whether the steps are being so taken ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of ... statutorily conferred jurisdiction, the courts are forbidden from interfering with the referendum process before [a] measure has been adopted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our case law embodies a strong tradition which holds that courts cannot interfere with the ongoing legislative process except in extraordinary circumstances.”
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.