Guardians v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Savage v. Glendale Union High School (2003), Scottsdale Healthcare, Inc. v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration (2003)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Asarco Incorporated v. Kadish · State v. Chapple · Havasu Heights Ranch & Development Corp. v. Desert Valley Wood Products, Inc. · Murphy v. State · Kadish v. Arizona State Land Department
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Congress] intended the Enabling Act to severely circumscribe the power of state government to deal with the assets of the common school trust. The duties imposed upon the state were the duties of a trustee and not simply the duties of a good business manager.... Thus to comply with Congressional intent, we must strictly apply the Enabling Acts restrictions regarding the disposal of school trust assets.”
2 later decisions 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.