Hortonville Joint School District No v. Hortonville Education Association’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
229 federal appellate · 79 district · 416 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,001 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. (1981), Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977)
229 federal appellate · 79 district · 416 state decisions — followed in 38 states
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann
Cited together with Withrow v. Larkin · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · United States v. Morgan · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Mathews v. Eldridge
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 1,001 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of judging (this) particular controversy fairly on the basis of its own circumstances.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not enough to overcome the presumption of honesty and integrity in policy makers with decisionmaking power.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Mere familiarity with the facts of a case gained by an agency in the performance of its statutory role does not ... disqualify a decisionmaker.”); Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 , 271, 90 S.Ct. 1011 , 25 L.Ed.2d 287 (1970) (”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.