Tindall v. Searan’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1984
13 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 Reeves v. Smith · Dozier v. Ragsdale · Smith v. Cole · State ex rel. Little Rock v. Donaghey · Leonard v. Luxora-Little River Road Maintenance District No. 1
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one doubts that the people, in adopting the Initiative and Referendum Amendment, intended to reserve to themselves the power to control their local affairs, and there is nothing more important to the taxpayers of a county than the regulation of its officers, their compensation, and the expenses of the county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Younts“Under the Initiative and Referendum Amendment (Amendment No. 7) the people of the county could not enact a law contrary to a general law which operated uniformly throughout the State”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Langston
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.