Hazlet v. Gaunt’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Swisher v. Brown (1965), Denver Ass'n for Retarded Children, Inc. v. School District No. 1 (1975)
34 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 Field v. Clark · Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh · People ex rel. Elder v. Sours · Attorney General of Michigan ex rel. Kies v. Lowrey · Sapero v. State Board of Medical Examiners
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The legislature is not required to legislate for the guidance of executive agencies further than is practicable, and, if the circumstances require, may express the policy or standard in merely general terms."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Said directors [of the boards] shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has almost unlimited power to abolish, divide or alter 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.