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← 767 SO2D 187 - Covington County v. GW

Covington County v. GW’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Goss v. Lopez · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · Keough v. Tate County Board of Education · 716 So. 2d 200 - Church of God Pent., Inc. v. Freewill Pent. Church of God, Inc. · Boykins v. Fairfield Board of Education

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “While this may be true when one is driving down the street, we can hardly say such a higher expectation of privacy should be had in a car on school property as opposed to a school locker.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “abused his discretion, was manifestly wrong, clearly erroneous or an erroneous legal standard was applied.”
    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.