Minarcini v. Strongsville City School District’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 577 · 1976
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 860 - Guglielmi v. Spelling-Goldberg Productions (1979), Kingsville Independent School District v. Cooper (1980)
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Douglas v. People of State of 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“social or political tastes of school board members.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A public school library is also a valuable adjunct to classroom discussion. If one of the English teachers considered Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 to be one of the more important modern American novels (as, indeed, at least one did), we assume that no one would dispute that the First Amendment’s protection of academic freedom would protect both his right to say so in class and his students’ right to hear him and to find and read the book. Obviously, the students’ success in this last endeavor would be greatly hindered by the fact that the book sought had been removed from the school library. The removal of books from a school library is a much more serious burden upon freedom of classroom discussion than the action found unconstitutional in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 , 89 S.Ct. 733 , 21 L.Ed.2d 731 (1969).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[b]y and large, public education in our Nation is committed to the control of state and local authorities. Courts do not and cannot intervene in the resolution of conflicts which arise in the daily operation of school systems and which do not directly and sharply implicate basic constitutional values.” Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 , 104, 89 S.Ct. 266 , 270, 21 L.Ed.2d 228 (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions 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.