Avery v. County School Board’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Board of Supervisors v. BOARD OF ZONING (2006), 4 Va. App. 520 - Mayo v. Department of Commerce (1987)
65 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 Vick v. Siegel · Brame v. Guarantee Finance Co. · Narrows Grocery Co. v. Bailey
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]itigation is a serious and harassing matter, and the right to know when it is ended is a valuable right.”
7 later decisions 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.