Kennedy v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 584 - Serrano v. Priest (1971), 47 Cal. 2d 177 - Hall v. City of Taft (1956)
10 federal appellate · 70 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 Hughes v. Ewing · Estate of Bulmer
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unnecessary to determine whether it is competent for the Legislature to delegate to these boards of education any of the powers which the Constitution has authorized it to exercise in providing for a system of common schools, as the rights of neither party herein depend upon the exercise of such power; but conceding that by virtue of this section of the political code the charter under which a city is organized may prescribe the powers and duties of a board of education, yet the ‘powers and duties’ authorized by section 1616 are powers and duties of the same general character as those .which are enumerated in section 1617, and which, except in certain enumerated particulars, are conferred alike upon boards of education and boards of trustees. The powers and duties of the board of education in a city cannot trench upon the system that the Legislature has provided for the entire state, since the charter is limited in its operation by any general law that may be passed by the Legislature, and, in addition thereto, such powers and duties are, by' the terms of the section in which they are authorized to be given, limited by the provisions of the political code.””
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.