Ferstl v. McCuen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Christian Civic Action Committee v. McCuen (1994), Bailey v. McCuen (1994)
42 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 Westbrook v. McDonald · Pafford v. Hall · Leigh v. Hall · Bradley v. Hall · Walton v. McDonald, SEC. of 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he ballot title is designed to adequately summarize the provisions of the proposal and be complete enough to convey to the voter an intelligible idea of the scope and import of the proposal.... The ballot title must also be free from any misleading tendency, whether by amplification, omission or fallacy. It must not be tinged with partisan coloring.... “It is difficult to prepare a perfect ballot title. It is sufficient if it informs the voters with such clarity that they can cast their ballot with a fair understanding of the issue presented.” (Citations omitted.) Ferstl v. McCuen, 296 Ark. 504 , 758 S.W.2d 398, 400 (1988).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he question is not how the members of this court feel concerning the wisdom of this proposed amendment, but rather whether the requirements for submission of the proposal to the voters has been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. Martin“see that the popular name and ballot title are a fair and honest means of presenting this measure to the people for their consideration.”
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.