Pugsley v. Sellmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), Leonard v. School Committee of Attleboro (1965)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Monette Road Improvement District v. Dudley · Watson v. City of Cambridge · Maddox v. Neal · Cooley v. Ksir · State v. School District No. 16
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question therefore is not whether we approve this rule as one we would have made as directors of the district, nor are we required to find whether it was essential to the maintenance of discipline. On the contrary, we must uphold the rule, unless we find that the directors have clearly abused their discretion, and that the rule is not one reasonably calculated to effect the purpose intended, that is, of promoting discipline in the school, and we do not so find.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Courts will not interfere in matters of detail and government of schools, unless the officers refuse to perform a clear, plain duty, or unless they unreasonably and arbitrarily exercise the discretionary authority conferred upon them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. McKinley
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.