McAdams v. Henley’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 76 Ark. App. 121 - Rudd v. State (2001), Giragi v. Moore (1936)
30 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 ex rel. Elder v. Sours · Constitutional Prohibitory Amendment · Brickhouse v. Hill · Collier v. Frierson · Worman v. Hagan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 22. Either branch of the General Assembly at a regular session thereof may propose amendments to this Constitution, and, if the same be agreed to by a majority of all members elected to each House, such proposed amendments shall be entered on the journals with the yeas and nays, and published in at least one newspaper in each county, where a newspaper is published, for six months immediately preceding the next general election for Senators and Representatives, at which time the same shall be submitted to the electors of the state for approval or rejection; and if a majority of the electors voting at such election adopt such amendments the same shall become a part of this Constitution; but no more than three amendments shall be proposed or submitted at the same time. They shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Constitution is the supreme and paramount law. The mode by which amendments are to be made under it is clearly defined. It is said that certain acts are to be done, certain requisitions are to be observed, before a change can be effected. But to what purpose are these acts required or the requisitions enjoined, if the Legislature or any other department of the government can dispense with them? To do so would be to violate the instrument they are sworn to support; and every principle of public law and sound constitutional policy requires the court to pronounce against every amendment which is shown not to have been made in accordance with the rules prescribed by the fundamental law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jernigan v. Niblock“We have decided that the provision in § 22, art. 5, requiring the yeas and nays to be entered on the journal on the final passage of a bill, is mandatory, and that the omission renders an enactment void. Smithee v. Garth, 33 Ark. 17 ; State v. Bowman, 90 Ark. 174 ; Butler v. Board of Directors, 103 Ark. 109 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jernigan v. Niblock
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.