Crowley v. McKinney’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.3d 965 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Del Marcelle v. Brown County Corp. (2012), Lauth v. McCollum (2005)
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Santosky v. Kramer · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · City of Canton v. Harris · Connick v. Myers · Roe v. Wade
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be bound to interfere with the educational mission .... not only by increasing schools' legal fees but also and more ominously by making school administrators and teachers timid because [they are] fearful of being entangled in suits by wrathful parents rebuffed in their efforts to superintend their children's education”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the only federal constitutional right vis-à-vis the education of one's children that the [Supreme Court's] cases as yet recognize . . . is the right to choose . . . among different types of school with different curricula, educational philosophies, and sponsorship (e.g., secular versus sectarian). It is not a right to participate in the school's management . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“includes the interest of educational institutions, public as well as private, in controlling their own destiny and thus in freedom from intrusive judicial [and governmental] regulation.”
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.