Jackson v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1965
3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every parent, guardian, or other person in the State of Michigan having control and charge of any child or children between and including (our italics) the ages of seven and fifteen years, shall be required to send such child or children to the public schools during the entire school year. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gingerich v. State““. . . between the ages of eight and fifteen years, and in cities between the ages of seven and fifteen years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gingerich v. State““A child over 15 years of age is not between the ages of 7 and 15 years.””
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.