Beene v. Hutto’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably Phillips v. Rothrock (1937), Wells v. Purcell (1979)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Herndon v. Gregory · Reeves v. Smith · Automatic Weighing Co. v. Carter · Condren v. Gibbs · Arkansas Bond Company v. Harton
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Pleadings under the Code are liberally construed and every reasonable intendment is indulged in favor of the pleader, and in testing the sufficiency of a complaint on general demurrer, the court indulges every reasonable intendment in its favor, and if the facts stated, together with every reasonable inference arising therefrom constitute a cause of action, the demurrer should be overruled. Manhattan Const. Co. v. Atkisson, 191 Ark. 920 , 88 S. W. 2d 819 ; Arkansas Bond Co. v. Harton, 191 Ark. 665 , 87 S. W. 2d 52 ; Herndon v. Gregory, 190 Ark. 702 , 81 S. W. 2d 849 , 82 S. W. 2d 244 ; Beene v. Hutto, 192 Ark. 848 , 96 S. W. 2d 485 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Lloyd
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.