School District v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012
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 Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Everson v. Board of Education · Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Meek v. Pittenger · Wolman v. Walter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The board of school directors in any school district may, out of the funds of the district, provide for the free transportation of any resident pupil to and from the kindergarten, elementary school, or secondary school in which he is lawfully enrolled, provided that such school is not operated for profit and is located within the district boundaries or outside the district boundaries at a distance not exceeding ten miles by the nearest public highway.... When provision is made by a board of school directors for the transportation of public school pupils to and from such schools ... the board of school directors shall also make identical provision for the free transportation of pupils who regularly attend nonpublic kindergarten, elementary and high schools not operated for profit to and from such schools....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The board of school directors shall provide such transportation whenever so required by any of the provisions of this act or of any other act of Assembly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“free transportation of any resident pupil to and from the kindergarten, elementary school, or secondary school in which he is lawfully enrolled”
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.