Pollitt v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Yanow v. Seven Oaks Park, Inc. (1953), Board of Education v. Wheat (1938)
26 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 City Louisville v. Commonwealth for School Board · District Board of Tuberculosis Sanitarium Trustees v. City of Lexington · Fox v. Board for Louisville & Jefferson County Children's Home · Wilson v. Board of Education · Agricultural & Mechanical College v. Hager
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No sum shall be raised or collected for education other than in common schools until the question of taxation is submitted to the legal voters * # *.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * If the term ‘common schools’ had a definite meaning in the minds of the draftsmen of the Constitution, it is our duty to give it effect. We must always recognize that we are construing and not constructing that instrument. * * *»”
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.