Wofford’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2022
4 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 · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Katz v. United States · Paul v. Davis · Stanley v. Illinois
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.
“reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] school official may detain a student if there is a reasonable basis for believing that the pupil has violated the law or a school rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. TS v. State · In Re JFM“It would be an odd state of affairs to tie school officials' hands merely because fulfillment of this mandate requires the detention, not the inspection, of a pupil. We thus address appellants' claim of illegal seizure under the rubric announced in T.L.O.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re JFM
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.