Chesshir v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2022
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 Little Rock v. North Little Rock · Ivy v. Edwards · Babb v. El Dorado · Polk County v. Mena Star Co. · Kirk v. High
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The general rule is that constitutional provisions and amendments thereto must be harmonized where practical. If there is to some extent an inconsistency or repugnancy between a provision of the Constitution and an amendment thereto so that one or the other must yield, the amendment, being the last expression of the sovereign will of the people, will prevail as an implied repeal to the extent of the conflict. The same rule of construction would apply in the construction of amendments. The latter amendment would govern to the extent that it was repugnant to, or in conflict with, the provisions of the former one. [Citing cases]. The principle of constitutional construction above laid down has been uniformly adhered to and applied according to the varying facts of the different cases."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. Priest · Wells v. Riviere
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.