Abeel v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1905), 43 Cal. 3d 1078 - Harbor v. Deukmejian (1987)
92 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Inhabitants of the Township of Montclair County of Essex v. Ramsdell · Mills v. Charleton · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Ranson · Brewster v. . City of Syracuse · Robinson v. Skipworth
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was for the legislature to determine whether the scholars of the public schools should be subjected to it, and we think it was justified in deeming it a necessary and salutary burden to impose upon that general class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Smith“not within the scope of a police regulation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Smith
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.