Irvin v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably City Council v. Dawson Waterworks Co. (1899), Holt v. Parsons (1903)
37 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 Crampton v. Zabriskie · Wheat v. Smith · Robinson v. Bidwell · Hope v. Mayor of Gainesville · Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A public school system from which resident pupils can be excluded because they are unable or unwilling to pay for admission, is not the system contemplated by the constitution ... There is no hint in the constitution that these schools are to be open to persons who pay and closed against those who do not pay ... There can be no doubt that municipal public schools, in so far as they perform the functions of common schools, are to be free to the children of the municipality, just as the ordinary common schools are free to the children of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crim v. McWhorter
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.