Stockton School District v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably 195 Cal. App. 2d 420 - Meyer v. Board of Trustees of San Dieguito Union High School District (1961), 75 Cal. App. 4th 1125 - Wilson v. State Board of Education (1999)
24 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 People ex rel. San Francisco & San Joaquin Railway Co. v. Craycroft
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is not the business of the court to make a statute, yet in the interpretation thereof it must look at the context and the result that would follow, in order to arrive at the intent. A literal construction will not always obtain, particularly when such construction leads to an absurdity.””
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.