Williams v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably City of Meridian v. Davidson (1951), City of Little Rock v. Raines (1967)
24 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 State ex rel. Hart v. Common Council · Hall v. Bledsoe · Lucas v. Futrall · Willis v. City of Fort Smith · Cumnock v. City of Little Rock
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Cause, ’ or ‘sufficient cause, ’ means ‘legal cause, ’ and not any cause which the Council may think sufficient. The cause must be one which specially relates to and affects the administration of the office, and must be restricted to something of a substantial nature directly affecting the rights and interests of the public.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fulmer v. Holcomb
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.