Thompson v. Wallin’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1990 · most notably Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951), Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY (1966)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Cox v. State of New Hampshire · American Communications Ass'n v. Douds · 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The phrase “prima facie evidence of disqualification” * * * imports a hearing at which one who seeks appointment to or retention in a public school position shall be afforded an opportunity to present substantial evidence contrary to the presumption sanctioned by the prima facie evidence * * *. Once such contrary evidence has been received, however, the official who made the order of ineligibility has thereafter the burden of sustaining the validity of that order by a fair preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we may not, of course, substitute our judgment for that of the Legislature as to the wisdom or expediency of the legislation”
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.