McCoy v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Ford v. Keith (1999), Burcham v. City of Van Buren (1997)
52 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 Richardson v. State · Mountain Home School District No. 9 v. T.M.J. Builders, Inc. · Beasley v. Parnell · Brown v. Brown · Gritts 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as including the facts and circumstances surrounding the offense. See Brown v. State, 316 Ark. 724 , 875 S.W.2d 828 (1994); Combs v. State, 270 Ark. 496 , 606 S.W.2d 61 (1980). The first rule in considering the meaning of a statute is to construe it just as it reads, giving the words their ordinary and usually accepted meaning in common language. McCoy v. Walker, 317 Ark. 86 , 876 S.W.2d 252 (1994); Mountain Home Sch. Dist. v. T.M.J. Builders, Inc., 313 Ark. 661 , 858 S.W.2d 74 (1993). Here, the plain and ordinary meaning of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rush 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.