State supreme courts kept striking down school finance systems after federal litigation closed.

Evidence

Although Rodriguez precluded further challenges under the federal Constitution, it did not end school finance litigation. Over the next few decades, 16 state supreme courts ruled that the school finance systems in their states violated the state constitution.» Among these was the Texas Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled, 16 years after Rodriguez, that the state’s school finance system violated the Texas Constitution. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3275

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘How the states routed around Rodriguez’ — federal retrenchment as the accidental engine of state constitutional policymaking.
• XREF: Connects to state constitutional law and judicial federalism as independent sources of rights.