Cato v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · V The Board of Higher Education of the City of New York · Jesse Freeman v. The Gould Special School District of Lincoln County, Arkansas · Scheelhaase v. Woodbury Central Community School District · Johnson v. Wert
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every contract of. employment hereafter made between a teacher and a board of school directors shall be renewed in writing on the same terms and for the same salary, unless increased or decreased by law, for the school year next succeeding the date of termination fixed therein, which renewal may be made by indorsement on the existing contract instrument; unless during the period of such contract or within ten (10) days after the termination of said school term, the teacher shall be notified by the school board in writing delivered in person or mailed to him or her at last and usual known address by registered mail that such contract will not be renewed for such succeeding year, or unless the teacher during the period of the contract or within ten (10) days after close of school shall deliver or mail by registered mail to such board his or her written resignation as such teacher, or unless such contract is superseded by another contract between the parties. Provided that no contract for the succeeding school year shall be entered into between the school board and any person prior to the beginning of the second semester of the current school year.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cato v. Collins“Insubordination and failure to follow directions and instructions as given by Principal as related to basketball program; Failing to comply with policy requirement, as agreed and approved by the Principal, Assistant-to-Principal, and Mr. Twillie; Playing a student under an assumed name in the State Tournament, that is under the name of a dismissed student; and Recommendation by Principal of Forrest City Junior High School. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cato v. Collins“[T]he reasons for [appellant’s] termination were insubordination and failure to follow directions and instructions, as given to him, by his Principal on important school policy. The testimony fails to disclose that his services were terminated as a result of his civil rights activities in 1968-69 or motivated in any way due to race, color or national origin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cato v. Collins
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.