Leonard v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1975 · most notably Weinberger v. Board of Public Instruction (1927), State v. Board of Public Instruction (1936)
6 federal appellate · 30 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 Brown v. City of Lakeland · State ex rel. Bours v. L'Engle · Munroe v. Reeves · McKinnon v. State, ex rel. Davis
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the exclusive use of public free schools within any such special tax school district”
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.