Simpson v. Teftler’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1978 · most notably Patterson Orchard Co. v. Southwest Arkansas Utilities Corp. (1929), Fulkerson v. Refunding Board of Arkansas (1941)
26 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 Lemaire v. Henderson · Hall v. Mitchell · State v. Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas Railway Co. · Board of Excise v. Board of Directors of School Dist. No. 27 · State ex rel. Fall v. County Commissioners
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The statute does not delegate legislative power, so long as it is complete in itself when it has passed the Legislature, even though it is left to a vote of the people when it shall come into operation. In the case at bar the law is complete in itself. It declares the result which may come from holding the election under its provisions. It is simply a case where the Legislature passed a complete statute, but made its enforcement depend upon the will of the people, to be expressed at an election called under the provisions of the act for that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . no measure shall be submitted to the people by the General Assembly except a proposed constitutional amendment or amendments, as provided for in the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ The Legislature alone had authority to provide for an election, and any election held without authority is a nullity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. Story
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.