Malone v. Nielson’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.3d 934 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2023
6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Illinois Northern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1401 · 20 U.S.C. § 1414 · 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Shepherd v. Wellman · Mosely v. Board of Education of Chicago · Iannaccone v. Law · Hutchinson Baker v. Spink · Navin v. Park Ridge School District 64
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the administrator is not the sole beneficiary of the estate, then he or she may not represent the estate in court.”
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.