Scoville v. Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 10 · 1970
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972), Wood v. Strickland (1975)
46 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Burnside v. Byars · Breen v. Kahl · Blackwell v. Issaquena County Board of Education · Paul R. Soglin v. Joseph F. Kauffman, Etc.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable forecast of a substantial disruption of school activity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While recognizing the need of effective discipline in operating schools, the law requires that the school rules be related to the state interest in the production of well-trained intellects with constructive critical stances, lest students’ imaginations, intellects and wills be unduly stifled or chilled.” Scoville v. Board of Education, 425 F.2d 10, 14 (1970), cert. denied, 400 U.S. 826 , 91 S.Ct. 51 , 27 L.Ed.2d 55 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trachtman v. Anker
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.