Roth v. Board of Regents of State Colleges’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1993 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), 5 Cal. 3d 771 - Bogacki v. Board of Supervisors (1971)
37 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Monroe v. Pape · Hans v. State of Louisiana
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is reasonable that there be available a very wide spectrum of reasons, some subtle and difficult to articulate and to demonstrate, for deciding not to retain a newcomer or one who had not yet won sufficient respect from his colleagues. . . . [I]t is important that . . . the university should enjoy the widest possible latitude consistent with protection against arbitrariness and against invasion of . . . [the teacher's] First Amendment rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“may not rest on a basis wholly unsupported in fact, or on a basis wholly without reason.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . minimal procedural due process includes a statement of the reasons why the university intends not to retain the professor, notice of a hearing at which he may respond to the stated reasons, and a hearing if the professor appears at the appointed time and place. At such a hearing the professor must have a reasonable opportunity to submit evidence relevant to the stated reasons. The burden of going forward and the burden of proof rests with the professor. Only if he makes a reasonable showing that the stated reasons are wholly inappropriate as a basis for decision or that they are wholly without basis in fact would the university administration become obliged to show that the stated reasons are not inappropriate or that they have a basis in fact.” 310 F. Supp. at 979-980 .”
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.