Webster v. New Lenox School District No. 122’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 1004 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Northern Indiana Gun & Outdoor Shows, Inc. v. City of South Bend (1998), Ross v. Creighton University (1992)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Conley v. Gibson · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · Epperson v. Arkansas · Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier · Edwards v. Aguillard
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a compelling state interest in the choice and adherence to a suitable curriculum for the benefit of our young citizens and society. It cannot be left to individual teachers to teach what they please.”____ The First Amendment is “not a teacher license for uncontrolled expression at variance with established curricular content.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A junior high school student's immature stage of intellectual development imposes a heightened responsibility upon the school board to control the curriculum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those authorities charged by state law with curriculum development [may] require the obedience of subordinate employees, including the classroom teacher.”
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.