Coleman ex rel. Coleman v. Wagner College’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 1120 · 1970
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 10 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1331, 10 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 10,294 Selene Weise v. Syracuse University, Jo Davis Mortenson v. Syracuse University (1975), Albert v. Carovano (1988)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Allwright · Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak · Griffin v. State of Maryland
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] reasonable and widespread belief among college administrators ... that section 6450 required them to adopt a particular stance toward campus demonstrators would seem to justify a conclusion that the state intended for them to pursue that course of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“section 6450 represents a meaningful state intrusion into the disciplinary policies of private colleges and universities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the 'regulation' of college discipline embodied in section 6450 appears almost devoid of meaningful content.”
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.