Williams v. Dade County School Board’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 299 · 1971
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Goss v. Lopez (1975), 348 F. Supp. 866 - Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia (1972)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education · Banks v. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County · Black Students of North Fort Myers Jr.-Sr. High School ex rel. Shoemaker v. Williams
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * * “We realize, of course, that it is not necessary that students be given the kinds of procedural protections reserved for those accused of serious crime. Nevertheless, we feel that a penalty of this magnitude ought not be imposed without proper notice of the charges, and at least an attempt to ascertain accurately the facts involved and to give the student an opportunity to present his side of the case.” ******”
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.