Fulks v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2002
18 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 Ex parte Jackson · Burgett v. Apperson · Waller v. Waller · North Little Rock Transportation Co. v. Sangster · Hampton v. Hampton
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Continued use of the term certiorari would needlessly complicate appellate procedure, which certainly should be as simple as it can possibly be made to be. Henceforth, we shall call these proceedings by their true names, appeals, and shall regard them as being governed by the statutes pertaining to appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magby v. State
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.