Potts v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2018
23 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSchool Directors v. Breen
Relationships
Relies on Abeel v. Clark · Dowling v. Lancashire Insurance · Tugman v. City of Chicago · State ex rel. Hahn v. Young · Bissell v. Davison
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record wholly fails to show that there were any grounds upon which the board could have any reasonable belief that the public health was in any danger whatever.”
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.