Baker v. Board of Regents’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 628 · 1993
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 86 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Morris v. Government Development Bank (1994), Lillard v. Shelby County Board of Education (1996)
51 federal appellate · 86 district · 7 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Wilson v. Garcia · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp.
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A civil rights action accrues when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of the action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and ... the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause both section 1983 and 1981 claims are actions for injury to the rights of another, the appropriate state statute of limitations is Kan. Stat. Ann. § 60-513 (a)(4).”
3 later decisions 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.