State v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2000
18 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 Everson v. Board of Education · Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Twp. · LoRocco v. New Jersey Manufacturers Indemnity Insurance
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in the State between the ages of five and eighteen years.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the public schools of the district or a day school in which there is given instruction equivalent to that provided in the public schools for children of similar grades and attainments. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a matter of good sense, it is both reasonable and necessary that these alternatives be matters of exception or excuse to be raised by the defendant ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Trucke
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.