Donald v. Hatch and Viola Hatch v. Earl E. Goerke’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 1189 · 1974
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2024
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Goldberg v. Kelly · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that due process entitles students in the public schools to be accorded the rudimentary elements of a hearing before they are expelled or suspended for a length or indefinite period, absent some extraordinary situation requiring immediate action before a hearing.”
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.