Wells v. Purcell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Pellegrino v. O'Neill (1984), Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee (2002)
4 district · 29 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 Fergus v. Marks · State Ex Rel. Torrance v. City of Shreveport · State ex rel. Biggs v. Corley · People Ex Rel. Broderick v. . Morton · Henderson v. Dudley
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It must always be remembered that the state’s constitution is neither an enabling act nor a grant of enumerated powers, and the legislature may rightfully exercise the power of the people, subject only to restrictions and limitations fixed by the constitutions of the United States and this state. Jones v. Mears, 256 Ark. 825 , 510 S.W. 2d 857 ; St. L.I.M. & S. Ry. Co. v. State, 99 Ark. 1 , 136 S.W. 938 . Under our system of government the legislature represents the people and is the reservoir of all power not relinquished to the federal government or prohibited by the state constitution. Rockefeller v. Hogue, 244 Ark. 1029 , 429 S.W. 2d 85 ; Hackler v. Baker, 233 Ark. 690 , 346 S.W. 2d 677 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Riviere“The rule is well settled, that when, in the absence of statutory regulation, the proceedings are for the enforcement of a duty affecting not a private right, but a public one, common to the whole community, it is not necessary that the relator should have a special interest in the matter, or that he should be a public officer.”
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.