Adams v. Whittaker’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2018
21 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 Smith v. Allwright · Grovey v. Townsend · Little Rock v. North Little Rock · Polk County v. Mena Star Co. · Cotham v. Coffman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are, of course, not concerned with the wisdom or policy of the legislation as this is a question solely for the General Assembly. We may consider only the power of the General Assembly to enact the legislation. In the case of Eagle v. Beard, 33 Ark. 497 , Justice Ealcin said: ‘Comity towards a co-ordinate department of the government forbids the discussion of matters of discretion, when the power is conceded.’ The power to enact this statute exists unless in contravention of our own or the federal Constitution, and in passing upon that question every doubt must be resolved in favor of its validity.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“provision and covers any and all other expenses of the county government fixed by the laws of the state, and though no specific reference is made to elections, these expenses have always been paid and the obligation and power to pay them has never been questioned. Although we feel that the quorum court's intentions as to the intended use and purposes of the fund could have been more clearly expressed, the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacKey v. McDonald“The present state of the law is that political parties are not required to hold primary elections to nominate candidates for office. They may do so or not, as the governing authorities of the parties may direct; but if a primary election is held, that election is a legal election, and must be held in conformity with the applicable laws of the state. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. West
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.