Lobato v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 27 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he general assembly shall ... provide for the establishment and maintenance of a thorough and uniform system of free public schools throughout the state”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, Inc. v. Rell · Lobato v. State

2. “Colo. Const. art. IX, § 2 (emphasis added). The record in this case-so well analyzed by the Chief Justice-demonstrates a substantial disconnect between the purported function of the school finance system and its actual operation. Instead of maintaining a thorough and uniform system of public schools, the current system of school finance maintains and exacerbates educational deficiencies. Therefore it is not rationally related to achieving the Education Clause's mandate. III. Disparity and Remedy [113 In Lobato I, we determined that the plaintiffs alleged appropriate claims that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lobato v. State

3. “A controversy is nonjusticiable-ie., involves a political question-where there is 'a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it. ...'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Colorado Medical Society v. Hickenlooper