Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.3d 565 · 2011
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Goss v. Lopez · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · Texas v. Johnson · Gitlow v. People of the State of New York
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a school could not punish a student for online speech merely because the speech was vulgar and reached the school.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“speech caused the interference and disruption described in Tinker as being immune from First Amendment protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“as a platform for [the plaintiff] and her friends to direct verbal attacks towards [a] classmate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.