Thomas v. Foust’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
April 1997
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simpson v. Matthews · Lemaire v. Henderson · Ark-Ash Lumber Co. v. Pride & Fairley · Laman v. Harrill · Whittaker v. Carter
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a law is limited in effect to only one or a few classifications does not necessarily condemn it as special or local legislation if the classification is not arbitrary and bears a reasonable relation to the purpose of the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Legislation may be roughly classified as general, special or local. A general law is one that operates upon all counties, cities and towns alike. A law is special in a constitutional sense when by force of an inherent limitation it arbitrarily separates some person, place or thing from those upon which, but for such separation it would operate and a local law is one that applies to any subdivision or division of the state less than the whole.” Thomas v. Foust, 245 Ark. 948 , 435 S.W. 2d 793 (1969)”
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.