Kuhlmeier’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024
2 district · 1 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
Relies on Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Widmar v. Vincent · Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico · Bailey v. Butcher · Burnside v. Byars
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the event that school administrators censor student writings ..., they are obligated to give the students an early opportunity to alter the materials to conform with the appropriate standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Tinker standards are to be applied whenever [school] administrators can reasonably predict that the content of a student publication will violate the Tinker standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if the students challenge the right of the administrator to limit student speech, the burden is on the school administrators to justify their actions....”
1 later decision 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.