Mallory v. Drake’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2000
2 federal appellate · 3 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 20 U.S.C. § 1411 · 20 U.S.C. § 1412 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415
Relies on Stuart v. Nappi · 497 F. Supp. 403 - Hines v. Pitt County Board of Education
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first of those requirements is that the state must have in effect a policy that assures all handicapped children the right to a “free appropriate public education.” This educational requirement has been met in Missouri by Section 162.670 [RSMo 1978 2 ], which declares it to be the policy of this state to provide to all handicapped children “special educational services sufficient to meet the needs and maximize the capabilities of handicapped and severely handicapped children.””
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.