Hooks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Bishop v. Wood · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Sherbert v. Verner
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a school administrator in continued employment as an administrator, although it does secure the right to certain procedural safeguards. Hooks , 781 S.W.2d at 523-24 (emphasis added). The phrase”
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.