Covell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2010
8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compulsory education of children in Tennessee is required by . . . Acts of 1913, as amended by . . . Acts of 1919, which provides as follows: “ ‘Every parent, guardian, or other person, in the State of Tennessee, having charge or control of any child between the ages of seven and sixteen years, inclusive, shall cause such child to be enrolled in and attend some day school, public, private, or parochial, for the entire term of school.. ..’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gingerich v. State
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.