Weidrick v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Smith v. Sidney Moncrief Pontiac, Buick, GMC Co. (2003), Pugh v. Griggs (1997)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Lanier v. Trammell · Rawls v. State · Gay v. Rabon · Files v. Hill
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can think of few rules more basic to the civil process than a rule defining the means by which complaints are filed and actions commenced for a common law tort such as medical malpractice. The express intent of the Arkansas Constitution and Act 38 of 1973 is for the governance of the procedure of the courts of this state to fall within the power and authority of the Arkansas Supreme Court. How civil actions are commenced is a fundamental cog in that procedural wheel. We hold, therefore, that Rule 3 directly conflicts with and supersedes Ark. Code Ann. 16-114-204 (1987, Supp. 1991) with respect to the commencement of civil actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Cornell“(a) Applicability in General. These rules shall apply to all civil proceedings cognizable in the circuit, chancery, and probate courts of this State except in those instances where a statute which creates a right, remedy or proceeding specifically provides a different procedure in which event the procedure so specified shall apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.