McVey v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 17 Wis. 2d 148 - State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Nusbaum (1962), Spears v. Honda (1968)
4 federal appellate · 19 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.
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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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“money donated to a state fund for public school purposes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“what use or disposition it (Commerce School District) makes of the state school funds or state aid which it has received and does in fact receive from the State School Moneys Fund, which includes part of the annual income derived from the Public School Fund of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paster v. Tussey
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.