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Com. v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Conyers v. MARTIAL ARTS WORLD OF RICHMOND · Eaton v. Davis · Cummings v. Fulghum · In Re Phillips · Tanner v. City of Virginia Beach

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “decisions regarding the safety and welfare of students are manifestly a part of the supervisory authority granted the school boards under Article VIII,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[A] court must avoid any literal interpretation of a statute that would lead to absurd results.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “avoid[s] any conflict with the Constitution.”
    1 later decision 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.