North v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2017
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Regents of the University of Michigan v. Ewing · Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v. Horowitz · Art Metal-U.S.A., Inc. v. United States · Kersten Co., Inc. v. Department of Social Services · Page County Appliance Center, Inc. v. Honeywell, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When judges are asked to review the substance of a genuinely academic decision, such as this one, they should show great respect for the faculties’ professional judgment. Plainly, they may not override it unless it is such a substantial departure from accepted academic norms as to demonstrate that the person or committee responsible did not actually exercise professional judgment. Considerations of profound importance counsel restrained judicial review of the substance of academic decisions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall not apply with respect to any claim against the state, to ... [a]ny claim arising out of ... interference with contract rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mumford v. Godfried
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.