Roger A. Mailloux v. Daniel P. Kiley’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 1242 · 1971
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Clark v. Holmes (1972), Weissman v. Board of Ed. of Jefferson Cty. Sch. Dist. (1976)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Robert J. Keefe v. George J. Geanakos · 323 F. Supp. 1387 - Mailloux v. Kiley · Roger A. Mailloux v. Daniel R. Kiley
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ree speech does not grant teachers a license to say or write in class whatever they may feel like ... and ... the propriety of regulations or sanctions must depend on such circumstances as the age and sophistication of the students, the closeness of the relation between the specific technique used and the concededly valid educational objective, and the contend and manner of presentation. ... [W]e see no substitute for a case-by-ease inquiry into whether the legitimate interests of the authorities are demonstrably sufficient to circumscribe a teacher’s speech.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... cannot justify a post facto decision by the school authorities that the use of a particular teaching method is ground for discharge, or other serious sanction, simply because some educators disapprove of it. . . ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we see no substitute for a case-by-case inquiry into whether the legitimate interests of the authorities are demonstrably sufficient to circumscribe a teacher's speech.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bishop v. Aronov
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.