Garrett v. Unity Common School Dist.’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1977
9 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 State of Texas Ex Rel George v. Baker · Lynn Cty. Sch. Bd. v. Garlynn C. Co. L. · Wichita Common School Dist. No. 11 v. Dickens Independent School Dist. of Dickens County · State Ex Rel. Kehn v. Incorporated Town of Spavinaw City
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When such petition was presented to and accepted by the County Judge the County School Board was then without jurisdiction to group the districts involved in said petition or order an election involving them until the petition was finally disposed of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the lapse of over one month between the filing of the petition and issuance of an order for an election by the County Judge did not, as a matter of law, deprive the County Judge of jurisdiction over the subject matter of the petition.”
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.