Dawson v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1992
2 district · 18 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 City of Pawtucket v. Pawtucket Teachers' Alliance Local 930 · Bray v. Barry · Gray v. Wood · Bailey v. Duffy · Times Publishing Company v. White
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems clear that the committee was not attempting to surrender its prerogative, but was merely utilizing the facilities of the purchasing agent, the board and whatever other finance officers are normally concerned with the keeping of the city books and disbursement of funds. Indeed no other construction is tenable. The school committee could not delegate the jurisdiction conferred upon it by the legislature in the absence of legislative authority to do so.” (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[0]nce an appropriation is made by a city council or town meeting for use of the school committee, the expenditure of those funds so appropriated is within the committee’s sole and exclusive jurisdiction.” Dawson v. Clark, 93 R.I. 457, 460 , 176 A.2d 732, 734 (1962). See also Bailey v. Duffy, 45 R.I. 304 , 121 A. 129 (1923).”
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.