Lowery v. Euverard’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.3d 584 · 2007
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Doninger v. Niehoff (2011), Doninger ex rel. Doninger v. Niehoff (2008)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Wood v. Strickland · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“School officials have an affirmative duty to not only ameliorate the harmful effects of disruptions, but to prevent them from happening in the first place.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“By choosing to 'go out for the team,' " student athletes like B.L. do "voluntarily subject themselves to a degree of regulation even higher than that imposed on students generally.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.