Adams v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2016
22 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 Hendrix v. Morris · Gladson v. Wilson · Hendrix v. Morris · Jonesboro v. Montague · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Flannagan
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.
“Section 19-4001 simply provides that such a board may be created. Here, the citizens of Clarksville apparently did not desire to create the Board of Public Utilities, and the authority to operate the utilities, therefore remained in the City Council. We agree with the Chancellor, that in passing Ordinance 387, the city created an agency to operate the utilities heretofore mentioned. The city had the express statutory power to own and operate these utilities [Ark. Stat. Ann. § 20-316 (Repl. 1956)], and we have held that a City Council may designate agents to act, within the scope of their agency, on behalf of the city. Jonesboro v. Montague, 143 Ark. 13 , 219 S.W. 309 , Gladson v. Wilson, 196 Ark. 996 , 120 S.W.2d 732 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.