King v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
August 1996
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on School City of Elwood v. State Ex Rel. Griffin · Hyde v. Board of Commissioners of Wells County · Board of Education v. Young · Bryant v. Board of Education · Talmadge v. Cordell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power here conferred [by OCGA § 20-2-59] is clearly for the benefit of the school system, and what rules, if any, should be formulated is left in their good judgment.”
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.