Poling v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 757 · 1989
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Adam Henerey by and Through His Parent and Next Friend Michael Henerey v. City of St Charles School District (1999), Fleming v. Jefferson County School District R-1 (2002)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier · Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser · Milliken v. Bradley
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Sjchools must teach by example the shared values of a civilized social order.” ... Sometimes, of course, these “shared values” come in conflict with one another; independence of thought and frankness of expression occupy a high place on our scale of values, or ought to, but so too do discipline, courtesy, and respect for authority. Judgment on how best to balance such values may well vary from school to school. Local school officials, better attuned than we to the concerns of the parents/taxpayers who employ them, must obviously be accorded wide .latitude in choosing which pedagogical values to emphasize, and in choosing the means through which those values are to be promoted. We may disagree with the choices, but unless they are beyond the constitutional pale we have no warrant to interfere with them. Local control over the public school, after all, is one of this nation’s most deeply rooted and cherished traditions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It may well be that a more relaxed or more self-assured administration would have let the incident pass without declaring [the student] ineligible [to run for class office], and perhaps that is what this administration ought to have done; it is not for us to say. Such a question, we believe, represents a judgment call best left to the locally elected school board, not to a distant, life-tenured judiciary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]ndependence of thought and frankness of expression occupy a high place on our scale of values, or ought to, but so too do discipline, courtesy, and respect for authority. Judgments on how best to balance such values may well vary from school to school.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.