Ball v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2012
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.
Relationships
Relies on McKenzie v. Burris · Henderson v. Dudley · Weems v. Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct · Bridges v. Arkansas Motor Coaches, Ltd., Inc. · McConnell v. State
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.
“§ 1. Departments of government. The powers of the government of the State of Arkansas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of them to be confined to a separate body of magistracy, to-wit: Those which are legislative to one, those which are executive to another, and those which are judicial to another. § 2. Separation of departments. No person, or collection of persons, being one of these departments, shall exercise any power belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right to decide whether an attorney, who regularly practices before a court, can be appointed to represent an indigent in a criminal case is a judicial question, not a legislative one. Ark. Const, art. 4, §§ 1 and 2; Ark. Const, amend. 28; .... The legislature invaded the province of the judicial branch of government in declaring certain attorneys could not be appointed as counsel in a criminal case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kimble v. State
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.