Leigh v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Christian Civic Action Committee v. McCuen (1994), Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Campbell (1993)
61 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 Westbrook v. McDonald · Pafford v. Hall · Bradley v. Hall · Coleman v. Sherrill · Reeves v. Smith
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing this amendment, it is our duty to keep constantly in mind the purpose of its adoption and the object it sought to accomplish. That object and purpose was to increase the sense of responsibility that the lawmaking power should feel to the people by establishing a power to initiate proper, and to reject improper legislation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Amendment No. 7 necessarily must be construed with some degree of liberality, in order that its purposes may be well effectuated. Strict construction might defeat the very purposes, in some instances, of the amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Our decisions upon the sufficiency of ballot titles have been so numerous that the governing principles are precisely familiar. On the other hand, it is not required that the ballot title contain a synopsis of the amendment or statute. Sturdy v. Hall, 204 Ark. 785 , 164 S. W. 2d 884 . It is sufficient for the title to be complete enough to convey an intelligible idea of the scope and import of the proposed law. Westbrook v. McDonald, 184 Ark. 740 , 43 S. W. 2d 356 , 44 S. W. 2d 332 . We have recognized the impossibility of preparing a ballot title that would suit everyone. Hogan v. Hall, 198 Ark. 681 , 130 S. W. 2d 716 . Yet, on the other hand, the ballot title must be free from ‘ any misleading tendency, whether of amplification, of omission, or of fallacy,’ and it must not be tinged with'partisan coloring. Walton v. McDonald, 192 Ark. 1155 , 97 S. W. 2d 81 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Bryant
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.