Dornacker v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2004
4 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 Kovarik v. County of Banner · State Ex Rel. Western Nebraska Technical Community College Area v. Tallon · Craig v. Board of Equalization of Douglas County · State Ex Rel. Western Technical Community College Area v. Tallon · State Ex Rel. Meyer v. County of Banner
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A high degree of intelligence, patriotism, integrity and morality on the part of every voter in a government by the people being necessary in order to insure the continuance of that government and the prosperity and happiness of the people, the legislative assembly shall ... [establish] ... a system of public schools.... ””
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.