McDevitt v. School Committee’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably Davis v. School Committee (1940), Callahan v. City of Woburn (1940)
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 General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. Department of Public Works · Leonard v. School Committee of the City of Springfield · Police Commissioner v. City of Boston · Peabody v. School Committee · Boody v. School Committee
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * This is not like cases where an officer is elected to a particular of fice with permanently fixed duties for an established term.””
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.