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← 54 MASSAPPCT 200 - Commonwealth v. Nathaniel N.

Commonwealth v. Nathaniel N.’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1232 · 20 U.S.C. § 1232G (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) · 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1412 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 20 U.S.C. § 1417 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 29 U.S.C. § 794A

Relies on Honig v. Doe · Smith v. Robinson · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Bogan v. Scott-Harris · Board of Education v. Diamond

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]n agency reporting a crime committed by a child with a disability shall ensure that copies of the special education and disciplinary records of the child are transmitted for consideration by the appropriate authorities to whom the agency reports the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The IDEA is a complex Federal grant program intended to 'ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “one of those rare cases that warrants overriding a District Attorney's authority to decide whether to prosecute a case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.