Scoggin v. Lincoln University’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably Esteban v. Central Missouri State College (1969), Jeroyd W. Greene v. Howard University, a Corporation, Nathan Hare v. Howard University, a Corporation (1969)
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Thornhill v. Alabama · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Carafas v. J · Schenck v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Acceptance of the time-tested techniques of demagogy and glorification of the violence of the mob by a student to support what he may believe to be an ideal does not alter the nature of his conduct nor does his youth give him immunity from disciplinary action based on conduct that may violate a valid rule of a particular educational institution, to say nothing of violations of the civil and criminal laws that govern the society of which, whether he likes it or not, he is a part.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Pursuant to procedures directed and agreed upon at pretrial conference, the parties prepared and filed a full stipulation of facts. At the plenary evidentiary hearing both parties advised that neither wished to adduce any additional evidence.” (Emphasis added.) 291 F.Supp. 161 at page 162.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.