DeFunis v. Odegaard’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003 · most notably Marco Defunis et al. v. Charles Odegaard, President of the University of Washington. (1974), Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (1986)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 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.
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.