Doe v. Plyler’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 448 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 2701 · 20 U.S.C. § 2761 · 20 U.S.C. § 2781 · 20 U.S.C. § 3401 (Department of Education Organization Act) · 20 U.S.C. § 3402 · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 7 U.S.C. § 2015 · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Dandridge v. Williams · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) The board of trustees of any public free school district of this state shall admit into the public free schools of the district free of tuition all persons who are either citizens of the United States or legally admitted aliens and who are over five and not over 21 years of age at the beginning of the scholastic year if such person or his parent, guardian or person having lawful control resides within the school district.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plyler v. Doe · Boe v. Wright“constitutionally infirm regardless of whether it was tested using the mere rational basis standard or some more stringent test,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plyler v. Doe“deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plyler v. Doe
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.