David E. Roth, for Himself and for All Others Similarly Situated v. The Board of Regents of State Colleges and Roger E. Guiles’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 806 · 1971
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Jeffries v. Turkey Run Consolidated School District (1974)
50 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Goldberg v. Kelly · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court properly considered the substantial adverse effect non-retention is likely to have upon the career interests of an individual professor and concluded, after balancing it against the governmental interest in unembarrassed exercise of discretion in pruning a faculty, that affording the professor a glimpse at the reasons and a minimal opportunity to test them is an appropriate protection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a prophylactic against non-retention decisions improperly motivated by exercise of protected rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the private interest that has been affected by governmental action.”
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.