Spring-Ford Area School District Division Case’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2013
11 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Gray v. Sanders · Sailors v. Board of Ed. of Kent Cty. · Butcher v. Bloom
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The boundaries of the regions shall be fixed and established in such manner that the population of each region shall be as nearly equal as possible and shall be compatible with the boundaries of election districts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Section 303] sets up two, and only two requirements, i.e.: 1. The boundaries of the regions shall be fixed and established in such manner that the population of each region shall be as nearly equal as possible, and 2. Shall be compatible with the boundaries of election districts.”
1 later decision 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.