Cook v. Shackleford’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1960
8 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 Lybrand v. Wafford (1) · McGregor v. Miller · Dixie Culvert Manufacturing Co. v. Perry County · Lake v. Tatum · Carter v. Cain
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The only question for us to decide is whether contracts made, or indebtedness created in excess of the revenues from all sources for the years in which the contracts are made, are void. “Amendment No. 10 has been construed by this Court many times and in the case of Standfield v. Friddle, 185 Ark. 873 , 50 S. W. 2d 237 , we said: ‘The law may therefore be regarded as definitely settled that any contract entered into or allowance made in excess of the revenues of the year in which the contract was entered into, or the allowance made, is wholly void, and the issuance of any county warrants based thereon, adds nothing to their validity, as the warrants are also void.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. State
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.