Donovan v. Ritchie’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 14 · 1995
Citation profile
4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2020
4 district · 2 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 Goss v. Lopez · Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education · Roland M. v. Concord School Committee · Real v. Hogan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the mere fact that other sanctions are added to a short suspension does not trigger a requirement for a more formal set of procedures. In Goss itself one of the plaintiffs had not only been suspended, but had been transferred to another school.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“oral or written notice of the charges against him, and, if he denies them, an explanation of the evidence . . . and an opportunity to present his side of the story.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the great majority of cases the disciplinarian may informally discuss the alleged misconduct with the student minutes after it has occurred. In order for the student to explain his version of the facts at this discussion, he should first be told what he is accused of doing and what the basis of the accusation is.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.