Owasso Independent School District I-011 Owasso Public Schoolss v. Kristja J Falvo Elizabeth Pletan Philip Pletan Erica Pletan’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Gonzaga University v. Doe (2002), United States v. Miami University (2002)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 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 Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1232G (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · United States v. Nordic Village, Inc. · Bragdon v. Abbott · Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“kept in a filing cabinet in a records room at the school or on a permanent secure database, perhaps even after the student is no longer enrolled.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“FERPA requires 'a record' of access for each pupil. This single record must be kept 'with the education records.! This suggests Congress contemplated that the education records would be kept in one place with a single record of access. By describing a 'school official' and 'his assistants' as the personnel responsible for the custody of the records, FERPA implies that education records are institutional records kept by a single central custodian, such as a registrar, not individual assignments handled by many student graders in their separate classrooms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No funds shall be made available under any applicable program to any educational agency or institution which has a policy or practice of permitting the release of education records (or personally identifiable information contained therein other than directory information, as defined in paragraph (5) of subsection (a) ) of students without the written consent of their parents ....”
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.