Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Lee v. MacOn County Board of Education (1967), Hawkins v. State Board of Adjustment (1942)
21 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 Montgomery v. State · National Surety Co. v. State · Montgomery v. City of Athens · Pickens County v. Williams · Bradford v. State
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.
“". . .A loss of such [local] funds would cripple the state school enterprise, just as the loss of any other school funds. . . . "It is of no moment that the taxes are paid by local subdivisions, earmarked for the schools in which the taxpayers are directly interested, and designated as county and district funds; nor that local custodians and administrative agencies with corporate powers are made a part of the state educational set-up." ( 230 Ala. at 397 , 161 So. at 508 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“every public school is a state school, created by the state, supported by the state, supervised by the state, through state wide and local agencies, taught by teachers licensed by the state, and employed by agencies of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . .A loss of such [local] funds would cripple the state school enterprise, just as the loss of any other school funds. . . .”
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.