Walker v. Scranton School District’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably 23 Cal. 4th 1 - Asmus v. Pacific Bell (2000), Smith v. Darby School District (1957)
33 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 Commonwealth v. Sunbury School District · Walker's Appeal · Ganaposki's Case · Jones v. Kulpmont Borough School District
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In ascertaining the intention of the legislature in the enactment of a law, the courts may be guided by the following presumptions among others: . . . “ (5) That the legislature intends to favor the public interest as against any private interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The aim and object of our school system is to provide the best education for the children of the Commonwealth. It cannot be doubted that it was the intention of the Legislature to subordinate all other considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The problems of the Tenure Act are multifarious and we can only meet them as they arise in cases before us. Each case must be disposed of on its own particular facts.””
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.