Handberry v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.3d 335 · 2006
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Johnson v. Rowley (2009), Bryant ex rel. D.B. v. New York State Education Department (2012)
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Sandin v. Conner · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Goss v. Lopez
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while there is no federal constitutional right to an education, New York State's education laws 'create a property interest in education protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he regulation[ ] at issue [is] neither ambiguous nor unintelligible, nor [is it] rendered 'unclear' [even if] no state court has yet construed [it]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“IDEA exhaustion in the instant case is excused under the futility exception for challenges addressing systemic issues.”
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.