Helena Elementary School District No. 1 v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding Montana's method of funding public schools unconstitutional under the Montana Constitution
• after court held state school funding system unconstitutional, ruling held in abeyance for 5 months \in order to provide the Legislature with the opportunity to search for and present an equitable system of school financing\
• constitution expressly provides for “equality of educational opportunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-10-02· cited 213×
• Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District v. Edgewood Independent School District
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-01-30· cited 188×
• Tennessee Small School Systems v. McWherter
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-03-22· cited 163×
• Rozanne E. King Alisha Jane King Dacie S. Houston, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Skylar Dwayne Ostrander, Chay Cortez Ostrander, and Adlia William Cortez Flood III Brandy R. Drake, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Logan Genner Luhmann, Susan Maule, Stephanie Maule, and Jacob Maule Michael Campbell, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of George Campbell and Soph
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2012-04-20· cited 133×
• DeRolph v. State
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1997-03-24· cited 129×
• Abbott v. Burke
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-06-05· cited 124×
• McDuffy v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Education
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-06-15· cited 108×
• Montanans for the Responsible Use of the School Trust v. State Ex Rel. Board of Land Commissioners
  Montana Supreme Court· 1999-11-02· cited 79×
• Coalition for Adequacy v. Chiles
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-27· cited 77×
• Campbell County School District v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1995-12-06· cited 76×
• Gannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2016-02-11· cited 75×
• Roosevelt Elementary School District Number 66 v. Bishop
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-07-21· cited 72×
• Skeen v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-08-20· cited 66×
• Columbia Falls Elementary School District No. 6 v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 2005-03-22· cited 56×
• Powder River County v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 2002-11-21· cited 49×
• Unified School District No. 229 v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-12-02· cited 47×
• Opinion of the Justices
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-04-27· cited 45×
• Bismarck Public School District 1 v. State Ex Rel. North Dakota Legislative Assembly
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-01-24· cited 44×
• Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-03-02· cited 43×
• Paynter v. State of NY
  New York Court of Appeals· 2003-06-26· cited 34×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Serrano v. Priest
  California Supreme Court· 1977-10-04· cited 669×
• Gwinn Area Community Schools v. State of Michigan
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-08-10· cited 40×
• Lee v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 1981-10-22· cited 39×
• State ex rel. Cashmore v. Anderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1972-08-18· cited 33×
• Means v. Montana Power Co.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 24×