Edwards v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1995
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Reed v. Wilson · Bledsoe v. Pierce-Williams Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The venue of the action, as shown by the allegations of the complaint, was in Montgomery County, where the cause arose, no part of it having arisen in Polk County, where the suit was brought, and the demurrer was properly sustained. Bledsoe v. Pierce Williams Co., 147 Ark. 51 , 226 S. W. 532 ; Reed v. Williams, 163 Ark. 520 , 260 S. W. 438 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . Actions for the following causes must be brought in the county where the cause, or some part thereof arose: . . . Second. An action against a public officer for an act done by him in virtue or under color of his office, or for a neglect of official duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moncus v. Raines
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.