Griffin ex rel. Griffin v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 201 · 1970
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1996 · most notably Olff v. East Side Union High School District (1972), Karr v. Schmidt (1972)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Stovall v. Denno · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Ferrell v. Dallas Independent School District · Breen v. Kahl
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The touchstone for maintaining such regulations is the demonstration that they are necessary to alleviate interference with the educational process.” Griffin, supra, 425 F.2d at 203. Cf. Sims, supra, 307 F.Supp. at 488 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“give full credence to the role and purposes of the schools and of the tools with which it is expected that they deal with their problems, and careful recognition to the differences between what are reasonable restraints in the classroom and what are reasonable restraints on the street corner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The clearly erroneous rule is a sufficient basis for affirming the district court as to the wrongful suspension of appellant and for striking the blocked hair prohibition as it was applied to him. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pound v. Holladay
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.