Deriso v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2008
8 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · Hebert v. State of Louisiana · Backus v. Chilivis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the myriad other matter involved in everyday administration of a public school system which the courts would face were they to embark upon the course of judicial activism desired by the school patrons. Resolution of these discretionary policy determinations can best be made by other branches of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lobato v. State
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.