Chastain v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2009
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 Vestal v. Little Rock · Clark v. Holt · City of Crossett v. Anthony · Gregg v. Hartwick · City of Little Rock v. Findley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Platted and held for sale or use as municipal lots; (2) Whether platted or not, if the lands are held to be sold as suburban property; (3) When the lands furnish the abode for a densely settled community or represent the actual growth of the municipality beyond its legal boundary; (4) When the lands are needed for any proper municipal purposes such as for the extension of needed police regulation; or (5) When they are valuable by reason of their adaptability for prospective municipal uses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whenever a majority of the real estate owners of any part of a county contiguous to and adjoining any city or incorporated town shall desire to be annexed to the city or town, they may apply, by petition in writing, to the county court of the county in which the city or town is situated and shall name the persons authorized to act on behalf of the petitioners.”
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.