Yibing Dong’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.3d 793 · 1999
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Deal v. Hamilton County Board of Education (2004), G ex rel. SSGT RG v. Fort Bragg Dependent Schools (2003)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 · Lu v. Ravida · Hoeft v. Tucson Unified School District · Union School District v. Smith · Smith v. Transworld Systems, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile we strictly review an IEP for procedural compliance, technical deviations do not render an IEP invalid”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has been widely modified over the years by professionals and parents, ... common characteristics include intensive training one-on-one, 30-40 hours per week, discrete trial therapy (DTT), and an in-home component (as opposed to therapy in a professional setting).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he 'preponderance of the evidence' language in the [IDEA] 'is by no means an invitation to the courts to substitute their own notions of sound educational policy for those of the school authorities which they review.'”
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.