Arnett v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2018
17 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 Varney v. Justice · McCreary v. Speer · Jefferson County Ex Rel. Grauman v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court · Miller v. Johnson · Zimmerman v. Brooks
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““with few exceptions, and only where the provision under consideration was of such a nature as to scarcely present the. question, the rule is declared that constitutional provisions are mandatory and never directory.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In other words, if the directions given by the statute to accomplish a given end are violated, but the given end is in fact accomplished, without affecting the real merits of the case, then the statute is to be regarded as directory merely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoffman v. Waterman“a vast difference between `substantial' compliance and no compliance at all.”
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.