Safferstone v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Smith v. Board of Education (1966), Jesse Freeman v. The Gould Special School District of Lincoln County, Arkansas (1969)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 Olmstead v. United States · Pugsley v. Sellmeyer · Bledsoe v. McKeowen · White v. Jenkins · Service Life Ins. Co. v. Branscum
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law involved appears to be well settled. In this State a broad discretion is vested in the board of directors of each school district in the matter of directing the operation of the schools and a chancery court has no power to interfere with such boards in the exercise of that discretion unless there is a clear abuse of it and the burden is upon those charging such an abuse to prove it by clear and convincing evidence.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is well settled that courts may not intervene to control matters in the discretion of administrative bodies such as school boards, in the absence of a showing of an abuse of such discretion. Necessarily, some latitude in the exercise of this discretion must be given to these boards. They represent the peo pie of the locality affected and naturally are closer to the problem to be solved than any court or other agency could be.””
3 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.