Epperson v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1996
10 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 Flanagan v. Drainage District No. 17 · Teasley v. Thompson · Less v. English · Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Co. v. Jop-pa Mattress Co. · Morris v. Varnell
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ark. Stats. 34-710. Duty of prosecuting attorney. — The attorney prosecuting for the circuit shall conduct the suit on behalf of the State on all appeals to the circuit court in cases of bastardy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winston v. Robinson
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.