Buckley v. Chilcutt’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2020
17 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 People v. Guenther · AviComm, Inc. v. Colorado Public Utilities Commission · Rathke v. MacFarlane · Moody v. Corsentino · Committee for Better Health Care for All Colorado Citizens v. Meyer
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If explicit statutory provisions are ambiguous or silent regarding the matter at issue, we interpret the statute to comport with the legislature's objectives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that an initiative [in Colorado] must demonstrate a certain level of support before it may appear on the ballot”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“our analysis is bounded by the principle that we must presume a statute to be constitutional.”
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.