Lawrence v. Schellstede’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2025
13 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 State v. Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company · Fretz v. City of Edmond · Johnson v. School District No. 1 · Downing v. Erie School District · Burton v. School Dist. No. 19
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“authoriz[ing] any county or subdivision thereof, city, town, or incorporated district, to become a stockholder in any company, association, or corporation, or to obtain or appropriate money for, or levy any tax for, or to loan its credit to any corporation, association, or individual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“adopted for the purpose of preventing the investment of public funds in private enterprises.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We therefore hold that the City of Tulsa by purchasing the insurance policy and becoming a member of the mutual insurance company did not become stockholder in the company, association or corporation as prohibited by the Constitution and did not appropriate money for, or loan its credit 'to any corporation, association or individual as prohibited by the Constitution. “Defendants concede that the City of Tulsa could appropriate public funds to a corporation under contract for insurance but contends the funds sought to be appropriated herein is not for a public purpose but for a private purpose. In this connection they propose the City is acquiring an interest or becoming a stockholder in the mutual insurance company.””
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.