Baker v. Milam’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1973
10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Town of McMinnville v. Curtis · State Ex Rel. Bales v. Hamilton County · Soukup v. Sell · State v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. · Bandy v. State Ex Rel. Board of Education of Sullivan County
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Education is a governmental function and in the exercise of that function the county acts in a governmental capacity. State ex rel. Bales v. Hamilton County, 170 Tenn. 371 , 95 S.W.2d 618 . Therefore, Chapter 328 is an Act which affects Decatur County in its governmental capacity. A special act applicable to a single county and contrary to the general law applicable to all the other counties violates Section 8 of Article 11 of our Constitution, even though that special act affects that single county in its governmental capacity, Town of McMinnville v. Curtis, 183 Tenn. 442 , 192 S.W.2d 998 , except where there is a valid reason for the discrimination. State v. Nashville, C. & St. L. Railroad Co., 124 Tenn. 1, 11 , 135 S.W. 773 , Ann.Cas.1912D, 805. Town of McMinnville v. Curtis, supra, 183 Tenn. at page 448 , 192 S.W.2d 998 . 191 Tenn. at 58 , 231 S.W.2d at 383 .”
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.