Adams v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2020
12 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 Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co. · Handley v. Stutz · Hogue v. the Housing Auth. of North Little Rock · Shellnut v. Arkansas State Game & Fish Commission · Opinion to the Governor
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All by-laws or ordinances after their passage shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose and shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer of the governing body and the clerk or recorder, and all bylaws or ordinances of a general or permanent nature and all those imposing any fine, penalty or forfeiture, shall be published in some newspaper of general circulation in the corporation; provided, in incorporated towns where no newspaper is published written or printed notice posted in five [5] of the most public places in said corporation and shall be deemed a sufficient publication of any law or ordinance for the incorporated towns, and it shall be deemed a sufficient defense to any suit or prosecution of such fine, penalty or forfeiture to show that such publication was made.”
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.