Patterson v. Temple’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2010
1 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The enactment, under consideration, attempts to divide Sebastian county into two judicial districts, . . . and provides that each ‘shall be as independent of, and distinct from each other, and shall hold the same relation to each other as if they were courts of different constitutional counties of this state, and shall be deemed, for all purposes of this act, separate and distinct counties, with original and exclusive jurisdiction within their respective territorial limits.' Thus it will be seen that the legislature is providing for all the attributes of a county, and creating all the essential features of these public corporations . . . the individuality of Sebastian county is entirely destroyed and obliterated. . . . The clerk must keep two offices, one in each district, and all matters of public record pertaining to either must be kept separate and distinct. . . . The objects of this law were to create two separate and distinct districts in Sebastian county, with all the powers and immunities of any constitutional county of the state, the area being less than six hundred square miles, which object, if carried out, would destroy the identity of Sebastian county”; Patterson v. Temple, 27 Ark. 203 ;”
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.