Ward v. Bailey, Governor’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably McArthur v. Smallwood (1955), Hatcher v. Hatcher (1979)
23 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 Fort Smith v. Scruggs · Nixon v. Allen · Little Rock v. North Little Rock · Collins v. Humphrey · Pulaski County v. Caple
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The Legislature, unless prohibited by the Constitution, has a right to declare fiscal policy.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is attempted in both acts to exempt from all forms of taxation any of the bonds authorized by each of the acts. Section 5 of article 16 of the Constitution provides that all property subject to taxation shall be taxed according to its value, in such manner as the General Assembly shall direct,. making the same equal and uniform throughout the State, and provides also the property which shall be exempt from taxation. Section 6 of the same article of the Constitution provides that ‘All laws exempting property from taxation other than as provided in this Constitution shall be void.’ It would appear therefore that this provision of the act exempting the bonds from taxation is void, at least when such bonds are held by any person or agency whose property is not otherwise exempt from taxation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.