Combs v. School Board of Rockingham County’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Mm Dm Em v. School District of Greenville County Mm Dm Em (2002), Doe v. Alfred (1995)
12 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Farrar v. Hobby · Hewitt v. Helms · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Dellmuth v. A Muth
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘special education and related services that (A) have been provided at public expense, under public supervision and direction, and without charge, (B) meet the standards of the State educational agency, (C) include an appropriate preschool, elementary, or secondary school education in the State involved, and (D) are provided in conformity with the individualized education program.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[s]chool boards must be given adequate notice of problems if they are to remedy them, and must be given sufficient time to respond to those problems before they can be held liable for failure to act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the School Board's actions were deemed to be in accordance with the [IDEA], but the School Board later made some changes that comported with [the plaintiff's] demands.”
2 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.