Otero v. Mesa County Valley School District No. 51’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 1312 · 1977
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Nulf v. International Paper Co. (1981), Castaneda v. Pickard (1981)
14 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Sierra Club v. Morton · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · Hazelwood School District v. United States · Schneiderman v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient to indicate the factual basis for the court's general conclusion as to ultimate facts”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hough a would-be teacher ... might be the most logical person to challenge the [D]istrict's hiring practices ..., such a person is not the only one who has a sufficient interest to institute such an action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In all actions tried upon the facts without a jury or with an advisory jury, the court shall find the facts specially and state separately its conclusions of law thereon. . . .”
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.