Adams v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1989
10 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 Crabb v. Celeste Independent School District · City of Dallas v. Mosely · Adams v. Miles
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.
“"It is apparent that it is, and has been, the public policy of this state, as evidenced by the organic law and the various legislative acts dealing with the public free school system, as applicable to common school districts, to permit the local authorities of these districts to use the local funds belonging thereto for any reasonable purpose deemed by them sufficient, having relation to the conduct of the schools in that district. This policy is evidenced by the many legislative declarations, too numerous to discuss in this opinion. * * * "We have not discussed the right of a qualified tax-payer to question the authority of the local authorities in common school districts to use public funds in the building of teacher's homes, when there is no reasonable necessity thereof, since the record in this case does not present this question. The law gives the right to the taxpayer to prevent local authorities from using public funds to build teacher's homes where it can be shown that the discretion vested in such authorities to so use such funds is being abused by pursuing the course indicated by the statute on this subject." (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A school district is a quasi corporation of a public nature, and the trustees of said district cannot lawfully expend money belonging thereto except for the purposes authorized by statute. The power of a school corporation is much more limited than that of ordinary public corporations. There is no general power possessed by a school corporation to expend public funds not especially conferred by law or necessarily implied from the language of the statute authorizing such expenditure.” (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The public free school funds shall not be expended except for the following purposes: * * *”
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.