Frank v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
March 2006
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Foster v. Jefferson County Quorum Court · Hoyle v. Faucher · Barker v. Frank · Rhodes v. Torres · Carson v. Weiss
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we interpret a provision of the Arkansas Constitution, we have said that when the language of a provision is plain and unambiguous, each word must be given its obvious and common meaning, and neither rules of construction nor rules of interpretation may be used to defeat the clear and certain meaning of a constitutional provision. Hoyle v. Faucher, 334 Ark. 529 , 975 S.W.2d 843 (1998).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. Fergus
How this case has been treated — in progress
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