Davis, As Next Friend of Lashonda D. v. Monroe County Board of Education et al.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
396 federal appellate · 447 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,282 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007), United States v. Morrison (2000)
396 federal appellate · 447 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDavis v. Monroe County Board of Education (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (§ 901 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · City of Canton v. Harris · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
Cited together with Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 2,282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly unreasonable in light of the known circumstances.”
175 later decisions quote this exact passage“so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it can be said to deprive the victims of access to the educational opportunities or benefits provided by the school.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough, in theory, a single instance of sufficiently severe one-on-one peer harassment could be said to have such an effect, we think it unlikely that Congress would have thought such behavior sufficient to rise to this level in light of the inevitability of student misconduct and the amount of litigation that would be invited by entertaining claims of official indifference to a single instance of one-on-one peer harassment.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.