McDaniel v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 174 Ill. 2d 1 - Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar (1996), Hornbeck v. Somerset County Board of Education (1983)
69 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1401
Relies on San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson · Craig v. Boren · Dunn v. Blumstein · Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Neither the trial court nor this court has been called upon to decide whether, as a policy matter, a particular financing scheme is `better' than another. We have been asked to determine whether the existing method of financing public education in this state meets constitutional requirements."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was justiciable, court would only inquire whether system met a lower standard of providing a minimum or basic education; because of the inherent difficulty in establishing a judicially manageable standard for determining whether or not pupils are being provided an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Protection to person and property is the paramount duty of government and shall be impartial and complete. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws.”
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.