22 Ark. App. 196 - Fowler v. McHenry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The rule by which statutes are construed to operate prospectively does not ordinarily apply to procedural or remedial legislation. “The strict rule of construction contended for does not apply to remedial statutes which do not disturb vested rights, or create new obligations, but only supply a new or more appropriate remedy to enforce an . existing right or obligation. These should receive a more liberal construction, and should be given a retrospective effect whenever such seems to have been the intention of the Legislature.” State ex rel. Moose v. Kansas City & M.RY. & B. Co., 117 Ark. 606 , 174 S.W. 248 [(1914)].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Fayetteville v. Bibb · City of Ozark v. Nichols

2. “view and interpret the evidence and all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom in the light most favorable to the findings of the commission and give the testimony its strongest probative force in favor of the action of the commission, whether it favored the claimant or the employer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Cagle Fabricating & Steel, Inc. v. Patterson

3. “weighed the evidence impartially and without giving the benefit of the doubt to any party in conformity with Act 10 of 1986.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 25 Ark. App. 1 - Marrable v. Southern LP Gas, Inc.