Young v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Slaton v. Slaton (1999), Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. Herndon (2006)
58 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 Nucor Holding Corp. v. Rinkines · Poe v. Case · 22 Ark. App. 144 - Banning v. State · 284 Ill. App. 3d 778 - Koelle v. Zwiren · Stamps v. Rawlins
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of almost universal application is that there is a distinction between want of jurisdiction to adjudicate a matter and a determination of whether the jurisdiction should be exercised. Jurisdiction of the subject matter is power lawfully conferred on a court to adjudge matters concerning the general question in controversy. It is power to act on the general cause of action alleged and to determine whether the particular facts call for the exercise of that power. Subject matter jurisdiction does not depend on a correct exercise of that power in any particular case. If the court errs in its decision or proceeds irregularly within its assigned jurisdiction, the remedy is by appeal or direct action in the erring court. If it was within the court’s jurisdiction to act upon the subject matter, that action is binding until reversed or set aside.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he purpose of the writ of prohibition is to prevent a court from exercising a power not authorized by law when there is no adequate remedy by appeal or otherwise. Tatro v. Langston, 328 Ark. 548 , 944 S.W.2d 118 (1997). It is well settled that a writ of prohibition is an extraordinary writ that is appropriate only when the lower court is wholly without jurisdiction. Nucor Holding Corp. v. Rinkines, 326 Ark. 217, 222 , 931 S.W.2d 426, 429 (1996). We have stated that a writ of prohibition is never issued to prohibit an inferior court from erroneously exercising its jurisdiction. Dougan v. Gray, 318 Ark. 6, 17 , 884 S.W.2d 239, 242 (1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the power to hear and determine the subject-matter in controversy between the parties to the suit; to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them.”
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.