162 W. Va. 672 - Pauley v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Abbott v. Burke (1985), 174 Ill. 2d 1 - Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar (1996)
214 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County · 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to prepare them for useful and happy occupations[.]'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mandatory requirements of “a thorough and efficient system of free schools” found in Article XII, Section 1 of the West Virginia Constitution, make education a fundamental, constitutional right in this State.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“The legislature shall provide, by general law, for a thorough and efficient system of free schools.”
8 later decisions 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.