3 Smith & H. 544 - Darnell v. Shapard’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably Estrin v. Moss (1968), Davidson County v. Rogers (1947)
39 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 Hunter v. Conner · Motlow v. State · Condon v. Maloney · City of Memphis v. State ex rel. Ryals · State ex rel. Astor v. Schlitz Brewing Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of the validity of acts of the Legislature attempting a classification of the counties of the State is largely influenced by the character of the legislation. If an act of the legislature affects particular counties as governmental or political agencies, it is good. It is good if it affects only one county in this capacity. No argument is required to sustain such an act. If, however, an act of the Legislature primarily *Page 121 affects the citizens of particular counties or of one county in their individual relations, then such classification must rest on a reasonable basis, and, if the classification is arbitrary, the act is bad.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“will not be reviewed by the courts unless it is palpably arbitrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.