Thompson v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Thiele v. Stich (1988), Brenden v. Independent School District 742 (1973)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 61 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 Dahlberg Brothers, Inc. v. Ford Motor Company · Brown v. Wells · Cramond v. AFL-CIO · Kelley v. METROPOLITAN COUNTY BD. OF ED. OF NASHVILLE, ETC. · Thermorama, Inc. v. Buckwold
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In light of the brief and oral argument presented to this court by plaintiff, if we were to take the most liberal view of plaintiffs pleadings and affidavits and assume that the suspension deprived Craig of expected participation in interscholastic activities, which is today recognized (as did defendants in their oral argument) as an important and integral facet of the youth’s education process, we would serve no useful function by reversing the lower court and issuing a temporary injunction at this time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * [I]nterscholastic activities * * * [are] today recognized * * * as an important and integral facet of the * * * education process, see, Bunger v. Iowa High School Athletic Assn, 197 N.W.2d 555 (Iowa 1972); Kelley v. Metropolitan County Bd. of Ed. of Nashville and Davidson County, 293 F.Supp. 485 (M.D.Tenn. 1968) * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reviewing court must limit itself to a consideration of only those issues that the record show were presented and considered by the trial court in declining the matter before it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kolles v. Ross
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.