Lucas v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 945 · 1970
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Jeffries v. Turkey Run Consolidated School District (1974), Megill v. Board of Regents (1976)
41 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island v. Wingate Corp. · United States Vajtauer v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York · Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the asserted reason for termination involved a possible collision with Lucas’ First Amendment rights. A hearing was mandatory, if desired by Lucas. But where the only matter in issue is a difference of view over a school board’s exercise of judgment and discretion concerning matters non-constitutional in nature, the board is not required to conduct a hearing.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“best forum to adjudicate and ameliorate problems of teacher rehiring,”
1 later decision 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.