Fisher v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 375 · 1973
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1990 · most notably Whisenhunt v. Spradlin (1983), Jeffries v. Turkey Run Consolidated School District (1974)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Adler v. Board of Education of City of New York · Beilan v. Board of Public Education School District of Philadelphia · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Federal Trade Commission
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . that each of the stated reasons [underlying her dismissal] is trivial, or is unrelated to the educational process or- to working relationships with the educational institution, or is wholly unsupported by a basis in fact.” [McEnteggart v. Cataldo, 451 F.2d 1109, 1111 (1st Cir. 1971), cert. den. 408 U.S. 943 , 92 S.Ct. 2878 , 33 L.Ed.2d 767 (1972); as cited in Fisher v. Snyder, 476 F.2d 375, 377 (8th Cir. 1973).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nebraska by statute requires that notice and a hearing be given nontenured teachers who are to be terminated. Neb.Rev.Stat. § 79-1254.””
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.