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Powers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Salerno · Washakie County School District Number One v. Herschler · Willis v. Mabon · Thomson v. Wyoming In-Stream Flow Committee · 13 Cal. App. 4th 720 - State Board of Education v. Honig

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The general supervision of the public schools shall be entrusted to the state superintendent of public instruction [(SRI)], whose powers and duties shall be prescribed by law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “the most difficult challenge to mount successfully, since the challenger must establish that no set of circumstances exists under which the Act would be valid.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “general supervision of the public schools.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.