Beauchamp v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 959 · 1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Washington v. Davis · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]n evaluation of teacher competence is necessarily a highly subjective determination that does not easily lend itself to precise quantification, nor, we might add, to judicial review. It is an area in which school officials must remain free to exercise their judgment and discretion, and we decline the invitation to substitute our notions of how to do so for those of the school board. See Bishop v. Wood . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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