Lentz v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Colby v. Boyden (1991), Baynard v. Malone (2001)
84 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 James v. Jane · Messina v. Burden · Rosillo v. Winters · Crabbe v. School Board and Albrite · Short v. Griffitts
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the nature and function the employee performs; (2) the extent of the governmental entity’s interest and involvement of the function; (3) the degree of control and direction exercised by the governmental entity over the employee; and (4) whether the alleged wrongful act involved the exercise of judgment and discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] teacher's supervision and control of a physical education class, including the decision of what equipment and attire is to be worn by the student participating, clearly involves, at least in part, the exercise of judgment and discretion by the teacher.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exercises control and direction over [a teacher] through the school principal.”
2 later decisions 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.