People v. Scott D.’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably New Jersey v. T. L. O. (1985), Horton ex rel. Horton v. Goose Creek Independent School District (1982)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 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 Terry v. Ohio · Spinelli v. United States · Gault · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the child's age, history, and school record, the prevalence and seriousness of the problem in the school to which the search was directed, the exigency to make the search without delay, and the probative value and reliability of the information used as a justification for the search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“. although the necessities for a public school search may be greater than one for outside the school, the psychological damage that would be risked on sensitive children by random search insufficiently justified by the necessities is not tolerable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.