Cobb v. Parnell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has been found and it is hereby declared by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the State of Arkansas has had heretofore an inadequate program for financing the agricultural, industrial and economic development of the State and of its several sections, that on account of such inadequate program, the State of Arkansas has been unable to provide for its inhabitants sufficient opportunities in agriculture and industry, that on account thereof the State of Arkansas is threatened with a decreasing standard of living for its inhabitants,, that unless an adequate program for financing the-agricultural, industrial and economic development of the State be immediately undertaken, the State of Arkansas will suffer immediate and irreparable loss in population and the opportunity for agricultural and industrial expansion . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Andres v. First Ark. Development Finance Corp.

2. ““* * * If, therefore, the phrase ‘needy farmers who are unable to procure seed’ may be taken to mean persons engaged in agriculture who, .by natural or other conditions beyond their control, are so reduced in circumstances that they have neither money, nor credit, nor property in shape to be pledged or mortgaged, and who without some aid will become paupers, dependent on the county for support — and we think this is the meaning — then the purpose to aid them is a public one, and the only subject left to consider is the validity of the means prescribed. £ % * s[i * ‡ “* * * (if a farmer owns property) it must be so incumbered that he cannot raise enough to buy seed and keep himself while the crop is maturing, and whatever he owns of real estate is, together with the crop, subject to a lien for the seed furnished.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Mechem v. Hannah

3. ““* * * [I]t permits every one who has not more than 160 acres of land, free from mortgage incumbrance, to borrow from the state. A person might have 10,000 acres of land, worth $100,-000, subject to a mortgage of only $500, and he would be entitled, under the terms of this act, to borrow from the state. He might also have $1,000,000 worth of personal property, and still he could borrow from the state. * * * Taxation cannot be imposed for a private purpose, and, if the state can appropriate for a private purpose the money in its treasury and then replace it by taxation, it can do indirectly what it cannot do directly.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Mechem v. Hannah