Cagle v. McCanless’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * Moreover for us to sustain the Act there would be chaos in the State's general educational system. Every county would be privileged to adopt an educational system all its own. This would be an intolerable situation and contrary to the accepted fact that public education in Tennessee rests upon the solid foundation of State authority to the exclusion of county and municipal government."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Board of Education v. Shelby County · Richardson v. City of Chattanooga

2. “There is no escape from the conclusion that the “Director of Schools” is the same office as that of County Superintendent of Schools, and the Legislature has no constitutional authority to transfer the legal duties of one, who is admittedly an officer, to another who claims to occupy a wholly different and inconsistent legal status.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. County of Shelby v. McWherter