Fyfe v. Curlee’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 401 · 1990
Citation profile
37 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Charles Morris v. Ann Lindau (1999), Committee for the First Amendment v. Campbell (1992)
37 federal appellate ·
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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers · Carey v. Piphus
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he parental interest in direction and control of a child's education is central to the family's constitutionally protected privacy rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“protected under the First Amendment and the penumbra of familial privacy rights recognized by the Supreme Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“productive, satisfying position to a menial make-work one”
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.