San Diego Committee Against Registration & The Draft (CARD) v. Governing Board of Grossmont Union High School District’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 1471 · 1986
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Republic of the Philippines v. Marcos (1988), Rodeo Collection, Ltd. v. West Seventh (1987)
32 federal appellate · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“continuum in which the required showing of harm varies inversely with the required showing of meritoriousness.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A limited public forum may, depending upon *1265 its nature and the nature of the state’s actions, be open to the general public for the discussion of all topics, or there may be limitations on the groups allowed to use the forums or the topics that can be discussed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“public property which the State has opened for use by the public as a place for expressive activity.”
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.