Garnett Smith’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 608 · 1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 20 U.S.C. § 4071 (The Equal Access Act)
Relies on Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Complete deference [to the school district] would render the Act meaningless because school boards could circumvent the Act's requirements simply by asserting that all student groups are curriculum related”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“equal access . . . to . . . any students who wish to conduct a meeting within [the school's] limited open forum”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one or more noncurriculum related student groups to meet on school premises during noninstructional time,”
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.