Buttolph v. Osborn’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Brigham v. State (1997), State v. Pray (1975)
2 district · 26 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at all times, in a legal way, accountable to them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]hey may, in due course, replace their school directors at the end of their respective terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“school directors are public officials who derive their power from the law.”
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.