Mercer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably New Jersey v. T. L. O. (1985), Horton ex rel. Horton v. Goose Creek Independent School District (1982)
7 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Gault · Bumper v. North Carolina · Burdeau v. McDowell · Rodriquez v. United States · Kimbrough v. Barnett
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not seem to be outside the purposes of discipline in a system of education for the principal of a public school to discover and bring under control drugs considered dangerous under law and possession which is made an offense by law. The same procedure employed by the principal, if used by the boy's father, would not violate security of appellant under the Fourth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. RCM v. State
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.