Cunningham ex rel. Cunningham v. Beavers’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 269 · 1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2021
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Ingraham v. Wright · Plyler v. Doe · Craig v. Boren · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly, maintenance of discipline and order in public schools is a prerequisite to establishing the most effective learning atmosphere and as such is a proper object for state and school board regulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No cases have ever held, and we decline to hold, that children are a suspect class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the situation clearly constituted child abuse”
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.