Td v. Lagrange School District No’s Empirical Analysis
349 F.3d 469 · 2003
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy (2006), Lapka v. Chertoff (2008)
42 federal appellate · 10 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · New York Gaslight Club, Inc. v. Carey
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n any action or proceeding brought under this section, the court, in its discretion, may award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs ... to a prevailing party who is the parent of a child with a disability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a legal term of art,' which signified that the party ... had been granted relief by a court,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Sjome settlement agreements, even though not explicitly labeled as a 'consent decree' may confer 'prevailing party’ status, if they are sufficiently analogous to a consent decree.”); Carbonell v. INS, 429 F.3d 894 , 901 (9th Cir.2005) (”
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.