Chiras v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.3d 606 · 2005
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2025
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Gregg v. Georgia · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[bjecause Pico addressed the removal of an optional book from the school library, not the selection of a textbook for use in the classroom, we decline to apply Pico to the facts before us.” Id. at 619 (emphasis added). Once again, I am concerned that the School Board has been less than candid with the Court in its arguments. 35 . The School Board cites Case for standing purposes, but chooses to ignore the District Judge's First Amendment analysis, which is applicable here. 36 . The criteria of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Court carefully circumscribed [the] potential right [to receive ideas], acknowledging that the case “does not involve textbooks” and that the Court’s conclusion “does not intrude into the classroom, or into the compulsory courses taught there.” Indeed, the Court readily admitted that a school board “might well defend their claim of absolute discretion in matters of curriculum by reliance upon their duty to inculcate community values.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griswold v. Driscoll“the principle that when the State is the speaker, it may make content-based choices. When the [state] University determines the content of the education it provides, it is the University speaking, and we have permitted the government to regulate the content of what is or is not expressed when it is the speaker....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griswold v. Driscoll
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.