Catlin v. Sobol’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2011
4 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a school district is bound to furnish tuition-free education only for children whose parents or legal guardians reside -within the district; that where the parents or guardians reside outside of the district the child presumably resides outside the district also and is not entitled to free education; and that this presumption may be overcome by showing that the parents or guardians have given up parental control and that the child’s permanent domicile, Le., the child’s “actual and only residence” — is within the district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Determining whether a family home at board is a child’s “actual and only” residence is fact-laden and necessarily requires case-by-case scrutiny. Facile application of the cold formalism that children are deemed to reside with their [biological] parents in genuine circumstances such as presented here is plainly wrong, because presumptions and legal fictions, while they may simplify cases, are not proper substitutes for individualized analysis and determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this presumption may be overcome by showing that the parents or guardians have given up parental control and that the child's permanent domicile--i.e., the child's 'actual and only residence'--is within the district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Catlin v. Sobol
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.