Lopez v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2013
21 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 McSherry v. City of St. Paul · Blue Springs Reorganized School District IV v. Landuyt · McIntosh v. White · State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Carlton
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.
““The overriding purpose of the Teacher Tenure Act is to ‘attain stability, certainty and permanence of employment on the part of those who have shown by educational attainment and by a probationary period their fitness for the important profession of teaching.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court shall render the judgment it thinks proper under the law and the evidence. If a party so requests, the court shall dictate to the court reporter or prepare and file a brief opinion containing a statement of the grounds for its decision and the method of deciding any damages awarded. The court may, or if requested by a party shall, include in the opinion findings on the controverted fact issues specified by the party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.