McGhee v. Draper’s Empirical Analysis
564 F.2d 902 · 1977
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Melton v. City of Oklahoma City (1989), Velez v. Levy (2005)
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“E. A board of education shall have authority to enter into written contracts with teachers for the ensuing fiscal year prior to the beginning of such year. If, prior to April 10, a board of education has not entered into a written contract with a regular employed teacher or notified him in writing by registered or certified mail that he will not be employed for the ensuing fiscal year, and if by April 25, such teacher has not notified the board of education in writing by registered or certified mail that he does not desire to be reemployed in such school district for the ensuing year, such teacher shall be considered as employed on a continuing contract basis and on the same salary schedule used for other teachers in the school district for the ensuing fiscal year, and such employment and continuing contract shall be binding on the teacher and on the school district....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and said she taught sex in the classroom; his wife made similar comments and said she was unfit to teach students; another couple said she was immoral, her conduct was not fit and that she was unfit to teach students; another man called her a liar. McGhee, 564 F.2d at 906. On April 3 Superintendent Draper asked plaintiff to come to a board meeting that night. When she arrived students were being interviewed by the board, ... Plaintiff went in last. Mr. Draper asked her if the book,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, the factual distinctions cannot be so easily ignored. Those distinctions are found in these factual recitations from McGhee: In November, 1973, [plaintiff] was called to a board meeting where several persons made some accusations against her. One man called her a”
1 later decision 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.