Grable v. Blackwood’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1955 · most notably Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Nelson Bros. (1935), McArthur v. Smallwood (1955)
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 Bush v. Martineau · Dickinson v. Clibourn · State v. McKinley · Oliver v. Southern Trust Co. · Common School District No. 13 v. Oak Grove Special School District
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.
“That the highway commission shall, as soon as possible, ascertain the amount of any valid outstanding indebtedness incurred prior to January 1, 1927, against any road district in the State of Arkansas, organized prior to the passage of act No. 11 of the acts of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas for the year 1927, * * * and shall draw vouchers to be paid out of the appropriation already provided for in act No. 18 of the Forty-seventh General Assembly for the payment of road district bonds and interest obligations; such vouchers shall be delivered to the person authorized to receive the same, on proper satisfaction of such indebtedness * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Act 153] sets apart or assigns to a particular use of a kindred kind a sum of money out of a specific appropriation made by the first act, the maximum of which is stated in that bill; that is to say, it is for the payment of certain indebtedness of various road districts which had not been included in Act No. 18. The appropriation is specific as to the purpose for which it is to be used. It is specific as to the time of payment and as to the fund out of which it shall be paid. This was sufficient to constitute a valid appropriation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An act complete in itself, and which would not mislead the members of the Legislature, is not within the evils to be remedied by this provision of the Constitution, and cannot be held to be prohibited by it without violating its plain intent.” Grable v. Blackwood, 180 Ark. 311 , 22 S.W. 2d 41 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Fry
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.