McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
782 federal appellate · 378 district · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,257 later decisions (110 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972)
782 federal appellate · 378 district · 114 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMcNeese v. Board of Education (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
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 Monroe v. Pape · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Kline v. Burke Construction Co.
Cited together with Monroe v. Pape · Damico v. California · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Younger v. Harris · Zwickler v. Koota
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 2,257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entangled in a skein of state law that must be untangled before the federal case can proceed.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is no answer that the State has a law which if enforced would give relief. The federal remedy is supplementary to the state remedy, and the latter need not be first sought and refused before the federal one is invoked.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 1983. Civil action for deprivation of rights "Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Headley · Beale v. Blount
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.