Lanza v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 178 Ill. 2d 399 - East St. Louis Federation of Teachers, Local 1220 v. East St. Louis School District No. 189 Financial Oversight Panel (1997), Woods v. Rondout Valley Central School District Board of Education (2006)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 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 Carter v. Carter Coal Co. · United States v. Lovett · V Subversive Activities Control Board · Dodge v. Board of Education · Garner v. Board of Public Works
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although members of a Board of Education in a city perform tasks generally regarded as connected with local government, they are officers of an independent corporation separate and distinct from the city, created by the State for the purpose of carrying out a purely State function and are not city officers within the compass of the Constitution’s home rule provisions.... “If there be one public policy well-established in this State”, this court declared in Matter of Divisich v. Marshall ( 281 N.Y. 170, 173 , 22 N.E.2d 327 (1939), supra.), “it is that public education shall be beyond control by municipalities and politics. The Board of Education of the City of New York is not a department of the city government, it is an independent corporate body.””
2 later decisions 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.