Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 370 · 1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2002 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III (1963)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 24 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
Relies on Loan Association v. Topeka · State of Ohio Bryant v. Akron Metropolitan Park Dist for Summit County State of Ohio Wadsworth · Borden v. Louisiana State Board of Education · Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The appropriations were made for the specific purpose of purchasing school books for the use of the school children of the state, free of cost to them. It was for their benefit and the resulting benefit to the state that the appropriations were made. True, these children attend some school, public or private, the latter, sectarian or nonsectarian, and that the books are to be furnished them for their use, free of cost, whichever they attend. The schools, however, are not the beneficiaries of these appropriations. They obtain nothing from them, nor are they relieved of a single obligation because of them. The school children and the state alone are the beneficiaries. '" (Emphasis supplied) 281 U.S. at 374-375 , 50 S.Ct. at 335 , 74 L.Ed. at 915 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is education, broadly; its method comprehensive. Individual interests are aided only as the common interest is safeguarded.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The contention of the appellant under the Fourteenth Amendment is that taxation for the purchase of school books constituted a taxing of private property for a private purpose. Loan Association v. Topeka, 20 Wall. 655 , 22 L.Ed. 455 . The purpose is said to be to aid private, religious, sectarian, and other schools not embraced in the public educational system of the state by furnishing text-books free to the children attending such private schools. The operation and effect of the legislation in question were described by the Supreme Court of the state as follows (168 La. page 1020, 123 So. 655, 660 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.