Goins v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1972
5 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 Phelps v. Witt · Justice v. Clemons
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a new school building is to be erected to serve a particular school pupil area, certain advantages always accrue to one or more groups or patrons and disadvantages to other groups. However, the solution of that problem is the responsibility of the School Boards elected to determine upon the best plans for the county school systems in their particular counties. We cannot substitute our judgment for theirs.””
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.