Robinson v. Cahill’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 90 Wash. 2d 476 - Seattle School District No. 1 v. State (1978), Hornbeck v. Somerset County Board of Education (1983)
8 district · 42 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Boddie v. Connecticut · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Ohio v. Kentucky · Keyes v. School District No 1 Denver Colorado
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The power to correct constitutional inequities] necessarily includes the authority to require the collection of revenues in cases where protection of a fundamental constitutional right depends on the availability of funds. See, e. g., Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371 , 91 S.Ct. 780 , 28 L.Ed.2d 113 (1971); Griffin v. School Bd. of Prince Edward Cty., 377 U.S. 218, 232-234 , 84 S.Ct. 1226 , 12 L.Ed.2d 256, 266-67 (1964); Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 , 76 S.Ct. 585 , 100 L.Ed. 891 (1956); United States v. Missouri, 515 F.2d 1365, 1371-1372 (8 Cir. 1975), cert. den., 423 U.S. 951 , 96 S.Ct. 374 , 46 L.Ed.2d 288 (1975); Wyatt v. Stickney, 325 F.Supp. 781, 784-785 (M.D.Ala.1971), aff’d 344 F.Supp. 373 , 377 and 344 F.Supp. 387, 392 (M.D.Ala.1972), aff’d sub nom. Wyatt v. Aderholt, 503 F.2d 1305 (5 Cir. 1974); Brewer v. School Bd. of Norfolk, 456 F.2d 943 , 946-948 (4 Cir. 1972), cert. den. 406 U.S. 933 , 92 S.Ct. 1778 , 32 L.Ed.2d 136 (1972); Bradley v. Milliken, 345 F.Supp. 914 , 938 and cases cited therein (E.D. Mich. 1972) aff’d 484 F.2d 215 , 258 (6 Cir. 1973), rev’d on other grounds and remanded, 418 U.S. 717 , 94 S.Ct. 3112 , 41 L.Ed.2d 1069 (1974).”
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.