Cotten v. Fooks’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee (2002), Servewell Plumbing, LLC v. Summit Contractors, Inc. (2005)
69 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 Wilson v. Pulaski Ass'n of Classroom Teachers · Ratliff v. Moss · Neal v. Wilson · Forrest Construction, Inc. v. Milam · Hollingsworth v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO. OF ROGERS
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s a general rule, appellate courts of Arkansas will not review issues that are moot. To do so would be to render advisory opinions, which the court will not do. Arkansas appellate courts have generally held that a case becomes moot when any judgment rendered would have no practical legal effect upon a then existing legal controversy.”
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.