501 F. Supp. 544 - In Re Alien Children Education Litigation’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019
4 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 20 U.S.C. § 2701 · 20 U.S.C. § 2711 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Dandridge v. Williams · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the United Nations shall promote: a. higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development; b. solutions of international economic, social, health, and related problems; and international cultural and educational cooperation; and c. universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The evidence demonstrates that undocumented persons do not immigrate in search for a free public education. Virtually all of the undocumented persons who come into this country seek employment opportunities and not educational benefits. . . . There was overwhelming evidence . . . of the unimportance of public education as a stimulus for immigration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plyler v. Doe“the absolute deprivation of education should trigger strict judicial scrutiny, particularly when the absolute deprivation is the result of complete inability to pay for the desired benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plyler v. Doe
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.