Read v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2000
12 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 School District No. 3 of Adams v. Callahan · Grant v. Michaels · State Ex Rel. School District No. 8 v. Lensman · In Re Appeal of Consolidated School District No. 16
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t] he power exercised by the administrative boards or officials in changing the boundaries of school districts is usually termed legislative power . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if he deem it advisable and for the best interest of the territory proposed to be transferred or included”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a full measure of discretionary power in creating and changing the boundaries of school districts.”
1 later decision 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.