Jefferson v. Ysleta Independent School District’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 303 · 1987
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994), Elliott v. Thomas (1991)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Ingraham v. Wright · Huntzinger v. United States
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are persuaded that in January 1985, a competent teacher knew or should have known that to tie a second-grade student to a chair for an entire school day and for a substantial portion of a second day, as an educational exercise, with no suggested justification, such as punishment or discipline, was constitutionally impermissible.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is not necessary to point to a precedent which is factually on all-fours with the case at bar. It suffices that the [defendant] be aware of general, well-developed legal principles.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would implicate, inter alia, Jardine's fifth and fourteenth amendment rights to substantive due process, specifically her right to be free from bodily restraint.”
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.