356 F. Supp. 35 - Doherty v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2016
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Perry v. Sindermann · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Coates v. City of Cincinnati · Elfbrandt v. Russell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mrs. Doherty made only one other application for employment after receiving notice that the Sumter County School Board would not hire her. She made no other applications for employment as a teacher for the 1972-73 school year with nearby Lee County or any other county. This lack of effort to find other employment, plus the defiant attitude taken by plaintiff . when [she] appeared before the board, plus the disapproval of personal wealth reflected in plaintiff’s lifestyle, indicate that plaintiff’s primary interest was to vindicate an infringement of her rights rather than to earn money.”
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.