Board of Education of Rogers Arkansas v. McCluskey’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 11 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Anderson v. Harless (1982), Michael Leavitt Governor of Utah v. Jane L (1996)
20 federal appellate · 11 district · 13 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
reviewedMcCcuskey v. Board of Education of Rogers, Arkansas (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Wood v. Strickland · Sumner v. Mata · Fletcher v. Weir · Hutto v. Davis
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Section] 1983 does not extend the right to relitigate in federal court evidentiary questions arising in school disciplinary proceedings or the proper construction of school regulations. The system of public education that has evolved in this Nation relies necessarily upon the discretion and judgment of school administrators and school board members, and § 1983 was not intended to be a vehicle for federal court correction of errors in the exercise of that discretion which do not rise to the level of violations of specific constitutional guarantees.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpretation ... so extreme as to be a violation of due process,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As Justice REHNQUIST has reminded us, in 'our zeal to provide”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Anderson v. Harless
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.