Doe v. Plyler’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019
8 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1703 · 20 U.S.C. § 241A · 20 U.S.C. § 241C · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1151 (§ 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1325 (§ 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson · Hines v. Davidowitz
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) All children who are citizens of the United States or legally admitted aliens and who are over the age of five years and under the age of 21 years on the first day of September of any scholastic year shall be entitled to the benefits of the Available School Fund for that year.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plyler v. Doe · Doe v. Plyler“A more exacting scrutiny of the Texas law also appears warranted when consideration is given to the decisions of the Supreme Court .refusing to penalize and stigmatize children who are not in a position to prevent the wrongful acts of their parents. As Mr. Justice Powell said of laws disfavoring illegitimate children: [Y]isiting this condemnation on the head of an infant is illogical and unjust. Moreover, imposing disabilities on the . . . child is contrary to the basic concept of our system that legal burdens should bear some relationship to individual responsibility or wrongdoing. Weber v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, 406 U.S. 164,175 , 92 S.Ct. 1400, 1406 , 31 L.Ed.2d 768 (1972) (footnote omitted). See also St. Ann v. Palisi, 495 F.2d 423, 425 (5th Cir. 1974) (invalidating school board’s decision to suspend two children from the school because their mother had assaulted an assistant principal, on the ground that “[fjreedom from punishment in the absence of personal guilt is a fundamental concept in the American scheme of justice”). While the undocumented minor plaintiffs are of course legally culpable and subject to deportation, they can hardly be held morally responsible for their presence here. Many of them were hardly more than infants when they arrived in the United States, nor did they participate in their parents’ decision to emigrate; consequently they deserve no additional burdens or penalties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the existence of a large number of employed illegal aliens, such as the parents of plaintiffs in this case, whose presence is tolerated, whose employment is perhaps even welcomed, but who are virtually defenseless against any abuse, exploitation, or callous neglect to which the state or the state's natural citizens and business organizations may wish to subject them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plyler v. Doe
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.