Hughes v. Robuck’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1945
13 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 Cox v. Road Improvement District No. 8 · School District No. 45 v. School District No. 8 · Special School District No. 2 v. Special 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The county boards of education shall have power to dissolve any school district now established or which may hereafter be established in its county, and attach the territory thereof, in whole or in part, to an adjoining district or districts, whenever a majority of the electors residing in such district shall petition the court so to do. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Fielding
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.