Robinson v. Cahill’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 90 Wash. 2d 476 - Seattle School District No. 1 v. State (1978), State v. Leonardis (1977)
36 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Baker v. Carr · Dandridge v. Williams · Reynolds v. Sims · Powell v. McCormack
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * But we do not doubt that an equal educational opportunity for children was precisely in mind. The mandate that there be maintained and supported “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” can have no other import. Whether the State acts directly or imposes the role upon local government, the end product must be what the Constitution commands. A system of instruction in any district of the State which is not thorough and efficient falls short of the constitutional command. Whatever the reason for the violation, the obligation is the State’s to rectify it. If local government fails, the State government must compel it to act, and if the local government cannot carry the burden, the State must itself meet its continuing obligation. [62 N. J. at 513]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Iuppo v. Burke“Reforming School Finance Through State Constitutions: Robinson v. Cahill Points the Way,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The danger is not blended power. The danger is unchecked power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.