Harrison v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button (1963), Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968)
39 federal appellate · 32 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Cooper v. Aaron · Plessy v. Ferguson · Gong Lum v. Rice · State v. Harden
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““« * * requires the State to ‘maintain an efficient system of public free schools throughout the State.’ (Emphasis included.) That means that the State must support such public free schools in the State as are necessary to an efficient system, including those in which the pupils of both races are compelled to be enrolled and taught together, however unfortunate that situation may be.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If there are 'no doubtful or ambiguous words or terms used, we are limited to the language of the section itself and are not at liberty to search for meaning, intent or purpose beyond the instrument.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Free schools to be maintained.— The General Assembly shall establish and maintain an efficient system of public free schools throughout the State.””
2 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.