Pickett v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2000 · most notably City of Winter Haven v. A. M. Klemm & Son (1938), Thursby v. Stewart (1931)
1 district · 25 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 Douglass v. County of Pike · County of Cass v. Johnston · Knox County v. Ninth Nat Bank of City of New York · Board Sup'rs Carroll Co v. Smith · St. Joseph Township v. Rogers
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Legislature may provide for the division of any county or counties into convenient school districts * * * and for the levying and collection of a district school tax, for the exclusive use of public free schools within the district, whenever a majority of the qualified electors thereof that pay a tax on real or personal property shall vote in favor of such levy; Provided, that any tax authorized by this section shall not exceed ten mills on the dollar in any one year on the taxable property of the district.” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hornsby v. Hilliard
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.