Brooks v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Alaska Civil Liberties Union v. State (2005), Alaskans for Efficient Government, Inc. v. Knowles (2004)
31 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 Organized Village of Kake v. Egan · Guin v. Ha · Lassen v. Arizona Ex Rel. Arizona Highway Department · Metlakatla Indian Community, Annette Islands Reserve v. Egan · Sosne v. Reinert & Duree
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The initiative shall not be used to- dedicate revenues, make or repeal-appropriations, create courts, define the jurisdiction of courts or prescribe their rules, or enact local or special legislation.[ 48 ]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]eneral contentions that the provisions of an initiative are unconstitutional are justiciable only after the initiative has been enacted by the electorate”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ensure compliance with `the particular constitutional and statutory provisions regulating initiatives.'”
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.