George Stevenson v. The Board of Education of Wheeler County, Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 1154 · 1970
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably William C. Ferguson v. Alvin I. Thomas (1970), Hall v. Garson (1970)
74 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 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 Monroe v. Pape · Fay v. Noia · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · King v. Smith · Royall
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intervene in school personnel and management problems without requiring such prior reference to local institutional authority as may be necessary to assure that the action complained of is final within the institution in the sense that it is ripe for adjudication.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he touchstone for sustaining such regulations is the demonstration that they are necessary to alleviate interference with the educational process.”
3 later decisions 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.