Roberts v. Priest’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Save Energy Reap Taxes v. Shaw (2008), Stilley v. Priest (2000)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Pafford v. Hall · Leigh v. Hall · Porter v. Harshfield · Walton v. McDonald, SEC. of State · Grayson v. Bank of Little Rock
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here... the sponsor fails to comply with and ignores and abuses these simple procedural requirements, established by our Constitution to protect all the residents and taxpayers of Arkansas, neither the Secretary of State nor this court can cure such a deficiency resulting solely from the sponsor's conscious disregard of the Constitution's requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 99-3473
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.