Smith v. Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 517 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2011
10 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n · United States v. Monton · Jeffries v. Turkey Run Consolidated School District
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No property interest can arise from [these] assurances since the County Board is not bound by the unofficial acts and statements of its individual members, and therefore cannot be a party to any mutually explicit understanding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Common v. Williams“To create a justifiable and reasonable expectation of job security, and thereby establish a property interest, there must be a mutually explicit understanding between the parties or a party with authority to bind the Board”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Common v. Williams“existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law--rules or understandings that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.”
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.