Doninger ex rel. Doninger v. Niehoff’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.3d 41 · 2008
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Jackler v. Byrne (2011), Doninger v. Niehoff (2011)
28 federal appellate · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Wood v. Strickland · Village of Willowbrook v. Olech · Cohen v. California
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a likelihood of irreparable harm in the absence of the injunction; and (2) either a likelihood of success on the merits or sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation, with a balance of hardships tipping decidedly in the movant's favor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] student may be disciplined for expressive conduct, even conduct occurring off school grounds, when this conduct would foreseeably create a risk of substantial disruption within the school environment ... [and] might also reach campus.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirm the district court's judgment on any ground appearing in the record, even if the ground is different from the one relied on by the district court.”
3 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.