Associated Students, Inc. v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.2d 1251 · 1974
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1992 · most notably National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Tarkanian (1988), Parish v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n (1975)
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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
Relies on San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Reed v. Reed · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Checker Motors Corporation v. Chrysler Corporation and Chrysler Motors Corporation, Checker Taxi Company, Inc., Additional on Counterclaim · Thomas W. Mitchell, Etc. v. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association, Raymond S. Prats, Sr. v. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association, Vincent H. Mancuso, Sr. v. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o reduce the possibility of the exploitation of young athletes through the recruiting of athletes who will not be representative of an institution’s student body and will probably be unable to meet the necessary academic requirements for a degree, to foster the image of collegiate athletics as sports engaged in by athletes who are first and primarily college students, and as a recognition of the possibility that any student who cannot meet the requirements of the Rule should not engage in athletics during his freshman year but should devote his full time to study.”
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.