Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Saxe v. State College Area School District (2001), Downs v. Los Angeles Unified School District (2000)
19 federal appellate · 11 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Cohen v. California · Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114 · Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“category, school officials must justify their decision by showing”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) vulgar, lewd, obscene and plainly offensive speech is governed by Fraser; (2) school-sponsored speech is governed by Hazelwood; and (3) speech that falls into neither of these categories is governed by Tinker.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.