Fowler v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 1942
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on School District No. 57 v. Board of Education · School District No. 36 v. Board of Education
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Territory outside the limits of any city or town within an independent district may be added to or detadhed from such city or town for school purposes upon petition to the county superintendent of public instruction by a majority of the qualified electors of the territory desiring to be attached to or detached from such city or town. * * *””
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.