Rainey v. Jackson State College’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.2d 347 · 1973
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2017
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Perry v. Sindermann · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · Shelton v. Tucker · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a clear case of impermissibly freighting the [teacher's] contract with a deprivation of the First Amendment right to free speech.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kinney v. Weaver · Kinney v. Weaver
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.