18 Cal. 3d 728 - Serrano v. Priest’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 453 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 529 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler (1978), Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. (1981)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 453 state decisions — followed in 28 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · 5 Cal. 3d 584 - Serrano v. Priest · 16 Cal. 3d 101 - People v. Disbrow · Robinson v. Cahill · 5 Cal. 3d 685 - Methodist Hosp. of Sacramento v. Saylor
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 529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“school funding scheme is mandated in every detail by the California Constitution and statutes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“); California: Serrano v. Priest (1971), 5 Cal.3d 584 , 96 Cal.Rptr. 601 , 487 P.2d 1241 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeRolph v. State“[t]he Legislature [to] provide for a system of common schools.”
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.