Karp v. Becken’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 171 · 1973
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Alan L. Baldwin and George Q. Cannon, Jr. v. Redwood City, Alan L. Baldwin and George Q. Cannon, Jr. v. Redwood City (1976), LaVine ex rel. LaVine v. Blaine School District (2001)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Cohen v. California · Dennis v. United States
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.
“facts which might reasonably have led school authorities to forecast substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First Amendment does not require school officials to wait until disruption actually occurs.... In fact, they have a duty to prevent the occurrence of disturbances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but rather the existence of facts which might reasonably lead school officials to forecast substantial disruption.”
2 later decisions 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.