Foley v. Special School District’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 863 · 1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2017
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · Paul v. A. Levy & J. Zentner Co. · Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp. · Christians v. Crystal Evangelical Free Church
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clare and her parents now have no individual right under IDEA to the special education and related services in question, so they have no right to a federal court decree mandating that those services be provided at a particular location.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require a local educational agency to pay for the cost of education . . . at a private school or facility if that agency made a free appropriate public education available to the child and the parents elected to place the child in such private school or facility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he 1997 Amendments expressly provide that public school agencies are not required to pay the costs of special education services for a particular child,”
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.