Wilmore v. Annear’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2009
21 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 Belier v. Wilson · School District No. 98 v. Pomponi · In re Kindergarten Schools · School District No. 16 v. Union High School No. 1 · Hotchkiss v. Montrose County High School District
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The local boards of education] shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“' It will be observed that section 1, article 8 of the Constitution uses the term `educational * * * institutions' in referring to schools other than the constitutionally required public schools.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the establishment and financial maintenance of the public schools of the state is the carrying out of a state and not a local or municipal purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.