Student Coalition for Peace v. Lower Merion School District Board of School Directors’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 431 · 1985
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Kreimer v. Bureau of Police for the Town of Morristown (1992), Brody v. Spang (1992)
25 federal appellate · 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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 4071 (The Equal Access Act) · 20 U.S.C. § 4073 · 20 U.S.C. § 4074 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Cort v. Ash · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cannon v. University of Chicago
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t shall be unlawful for any public secondary school which receives Federal financial assistance and which has a limited open forum to deny equal access ... to ... any students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open forum on the basis of the ... political ... content of the speech at such meetings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nonschool persons may not direct, conduct, control, or regularly attend activities of student groups.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be so designated for only limited uses or for a limited class of speakers.”
2 later decisions 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.