Mabey v. Reagan’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1036 · 1976
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Bills v. Henderson (1980), Bowen v. Watkins (1982)
39 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“questions of motive predominate in the inquiry about how big a role the protected behavior played in”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A college relies in large measure on faculty self-governance and its contributions to administrative decisions. This is analogous to, but different from a high school's need to `discipline by ... superiors.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Li E · Brown v. Li E“unrealistic sensitivity to the fragility of schools and universities is inappropriate. Robust intellectual and political discussions can and should thrive on college campuses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peacock v. Duval
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.