Laman v. McCord’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. O'Neill Investigations, Inc. (1980), 71 Wis. 2d 662 - State Ex Rel. Lynch v. Conta (1976)
2 federal appellate · 113 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Berry v. Gordon · Employers Ins. Co. of Alabama v. Johnston · Brooks v. Claywell · Beaumont v. Faubus · Bobo v. Bryson
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a rule, statutes enacted for the public benefit are to be interpreted most favorably to the public----We have no hesitation in asserting our conviction that the Freedom of Information Act was passed wholly in the public interest and is to be liberally interpreted to the end that its praiseworthy purposes may be achieved. The language of the act is so clear, so positive, that there is hardly any need for interpretation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Public meetings” means the meetings of any bureau, commission, or agency of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, including municipalities and counties, boards of education, and all other boards, bureaus, commissions, or organizations in the State of Arkansas, except grand juries, supported wholly or in part by public funds or expending public funds. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is vital in a democratic society that public business be performed in an open and public manner so that the electors shall be advised of the performance of public officials and of the decisions that are reached in public activity and in making public policy. Toward this end, this chapter is adopted, making it possible for them or their representatives to learn and to report fully the activities of their public officials.”
2 later decisions 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.