Woolard v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. “The levying of a tax for the construction of a courthouse is a tax levy for county purposes. In Williams, et al., v. Arkansas County Courthouse Improvement District, et al., 153 Ark. 469 , 240 S.W. 725 , we said: “If the expense of holding the courts and otherwise maintaining two judicial districts in a county is a county expense, it would seem that it necessarily follows that the erection of a courthouse for the use of such district would also be a county expense.” [Emphasis added] It must be said that the construction or reconstruction of a district courthouse or jail is a matter of county-wide interest and responsibility and any tax levied for such a purpose is a tax levy for a county purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mississippi County v. City of Osceola

2. “It is difficult, therefore, to see what effect can be given to the financial provisions of the act quoted above. But in determining this cause it is sufficient to say that these provisions cannot be treated as having created separate taxing districts without holding that they impair the unity and power which the constitution secures to Clay county as a political subdivision of the state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parker v. Crow