Cook v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate ·

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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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “I join in the Court’s disposition of this case. In doing so, I emphasize that our decision to dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted intimates no view on the question of when, if ever, public school teachers — or any comparable public employees — may be required, as a condition of their employment, to enroll their children in any particular school or refrain from sending them to a school which they, as parents, in their sole discretion, consider desirable. Few familial decisions are as immune from governmental interference as parents’ choice of a school for their children, so long as the school chosen otherwise meets the educational standards imposed by the State. See Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 [ 45 S.Ct. 571 , 69 L.Ed. 1070 ] (1925); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 [ 43 S.Ct. 625 , 67 L.Ed. 1042 ] (1923); Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 [ 92 S.Ct. 1526 , 32 L.Ed.2d 15 ] (1972).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 579 F. Supp. 1091 - Stough v. Crenshaw County Board of Education