Brooke Zykan v. Warsaw Community School Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2021
3 district · 4 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 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · Shelton v. Tucker · Epperson v. Arkansas
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.
“complaints filed by secondary school students to contest the educational decisions of local authorities are sometimes cognizable but generally must cross a relatively high threshold before entering upon the field of a constitutional claim ... [N]othing in the Constitution permits the courts to interfere with local discretion until local authorities begin to substitute rigid and exclusive indoctrination for the right to make pedagogic choices regarding matters of legitimate dispute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The academic freedom claim is subsumed by the broader free speech claim, for `the First Amendment guarantees are sufficiently broad to provide some protection for what has been called academic freedom'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“tend to limit the relevance of `academic freedom' at the secondary school level”
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.