Taylor v. Crisp’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Thompson v. Wake County Board of Education (1977), 161 N.C. App. 558 - Proposed Assessments of Additional Sales v. Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Co. (2003)
9 federal appellate · 52 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 State v. Spencer · Still v. Lance · Childers v. Parker's, Inc. · Freeland v. Orange County
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The manifest purpose of G.S. 115[C]-142 was to provide teachers of proven ability for the children of this state by protecting such teachers from dismissal for political, personal, arbitrary or discriminatory reasons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Whereas it is logical to conclude that an amendment to an unambiguous statute indicates the intent to change the law, no such inference arises when the legislature amends an ambiguous provision.' In such case, the purpose of the variation may be 'to clarify that which was previously doubtful.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“arbitrary, capricious, discriminatory, or for personal or political reasons.”
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.