Connell v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2015
9 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 People ex rel. Ring v. Board of Education of District 24 · State ex rel. Weiss v. District Board of School District No. Eight · Synod of Dakota v. State · Bryant v. Whisenant · Donahoe v. Richards
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.
“[t]he first legislative act passed toward the separation of church and state . . . by Virginia in 1786, entitled 'An act for establishing religious freedom,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the Wisconsin case the question turned largely upon the construction of legislative acts, and has weight as an authority in this case only to show that the board of regents, where not prohibited, either expressly or impliedly, by law, have the power to coileet incidental fees to bear expenses necessary and convenient to accomplish the objects for which the institution was founded””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Board of Regents have the implied power to do everything- necessary and convenient, where it is not prohibited, either expressly or impliedly, by law, to accomplish the ¡objects for which the institution was founded. ””
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.