School District v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Robinson v. Indiana & Arkansas Lumber & Manufacturing Co. (1917), Wayland v. Snapp (1960)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 Town of West Hartford v. Board of Water Commissioners · Brodie v. Fitzgerald · Pearson v. State · Little Rock & Fort Smith Ry. v. Worthen
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems clear that the intention was to exempt only that public property which in itself directly subserved some public purpose by actual use, as distinguished from property belonging to the public but not used by it, and from which a benefit accrues to the public, not by the immediate use thereof by the public, but indirectly through selling or renting the same to private parties.”
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.