293 F. Supp. 327 - McInnis v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley (1982)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · Baker v. Carr · Bell v. Hood · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he General Assembly’s delegation of authority to school districts appears designed to allow individual localities to determine their own tax burden according to the importance which they place upon public schools. *** While some communities might place heavy emphasis on schools, others may cherish police protection or improved roads. The state legislature’s decision to allow local choice and experimentation is reasonable ***.” McInnis, 293 F. Supp. at 333 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Without doubt, the educational potential of each child should be cultivated to the utmost, and the poorer school districts should have more funds with which to improve their schools. But the allocation of public revenues is a basic policy decision more appropriately handled by a legislature than a court.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only a financing system which apportions public funds according to the educational needs of the students satisfies the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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.