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557 F.2d 373 · 1977

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
1
states following
August 1997
most recently cited

42 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably Mahone v. Waddle (1977), Resident Advisory Board ex rel. Wylie v. Rizzo (1977)

42 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions

360197719801990decided

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 Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Hagans v. Lavine · Zwickler v. Koota · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners

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

  1. “(t)he scope and content of the educational plan that the district court approves may very well alter our perspective and could change the legal issues that are presented.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hoots v. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania · Spates v. Manson
  2. “enable[s] the appellate tribunal to examine the case in the context of a specific remedial regime instead of in a mere abstract posture.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Armstrong · Armstrong v. Wilson
  3. “The precise ingredients of the plan ... will have no ... metamorphosizing effect on our understanding of this case.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Armstrong · Armstrong v. Wilson

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.