Boyd v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2018
10 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 Matter of Mitchell · Morgan v. Board of Sup'rs · Southern Pacific Co. v. Pima County · Martin v. Whiting · Southern Pacific Co. v. Maricopa County
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a common school district seeks to change its boundaries it is necessary for the high school district with which it is coterminus [sic], or if a union high school, of which it forms a part, to either join in said petition or that the trustees of said high school district, if different in personnel from the common school board, be given notice thereof under the provisions of section 54-403. [Now A.R.S. § 15-402]” 68 Ariz. 166, 178 , 203 P.2d 626 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Section 54-403 5 provides: ‘The county school superintendent shall, on the first day of July of each year, file with the board of supervisors a transcript of the boundaries of each school district within his county, * * *.’ "It has never been even suggested that this section does not include high school districts as well as common school districts(Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The boundaries of a district shall not be changed except as provided in this title and then only after the trustees of districts affected have had written notice of the proposed change from the county superintendent and have had an opportunity to be heard.””
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.