Heather Kathy v. State of Wisconsin T’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Sellers Sellers v. The School Board of the City of Manassas Virginia E, Amanda Annette v. Clark County School District Nevada State Department of Education (2001)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · Calder v. Job · Boyd v. Brown · Federal Kemper Life Assurance Co. v. Bodine
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the motion for summary judgment is simply the procedural vehicle for asking the judge to decide the case on the basis of the administrative record.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Procedural flaws do not automatically require a finding of a denial of a [free appropriate public education], However, procedural inadequacies that result in the loss of educational opportunity ... clearly result in the denial of a [free appropriate public education].' ”) (quoting Heather S. v. State of Wis., 125 F.3d 1045, 1059 (7th Cir. 1997) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)), . See Bd. of Educ. of Hendrick Hudson Cent. Sch. Dist., Westchester Cnty. v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176, 203 , 102 S.Ct. 3034 , 73 L.Ed.2d 690 (1982) (a state offers a FAPE”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miksis ex rel. Miksis v. Evanston Township High School District 202 · Evanston Community Consolidated School District Number 65 v. Michael M. And Christine M., Parents of John M., John M., by His Parents and Next Friends, Michael M. And Christine M. v. Evanston Community Consolidated School District Number 65 and Dr. Hardy Ray Murphy, Its Superintendent, Sued in His Official Capacity“shall receive the records of the administrative proceedings, shall hear additional evidence at the request of a party, and, basing its decision on the preponderance of the evidence, shall grant such relief as the court determines is appropriate.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evanston Community Consolidated School District Number 65 v. Michael M. And Christine M., Parents of John M., John M., by His Parents and Next Friends, Michael M. And Christine M. v. Evanston Community Consolidated School District Number 65 and Dr. Hardy Ray Murphy, Its Superintendent, Sued in His Official Capacity · Z.J. v. Bd. of Educ. of Chi.
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.