Beth v. Van Clay’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.3d 493 · 2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Loren Fisher v. Atlanta Independent School System (2003), Alex Beth v. Forrestville Valley Community Unit School District (2004)
10 federal appellate · 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 Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Daniel R.R. v. State Board of Education · Roncker ex rel. Roncker v. Walter · Lachman v. Illinois State Board of Education · Heather S. ex rel. Kathy S. v. Wisconsin
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is perhaps better described as judgment on the record.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“summary judgment [in IDEA cases] has been deemed appropriate even when facts are in dispute, and is based on a preponderance of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment [may] occur[ ] only when the nature or severity of the disability of a child is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.