Muth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2014
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1401 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415
Relies on Helms v. McDaniel · Victoria Carol v. District School Board Lee County Florida: D · Grymes v. Madden · Robert v. Benton · Vogel v. School Board of Montrose R-14 School District
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“directly exercises both fiscal and regulatory control over the school district and ... is at least involved in the education of handicapped children as were the employees of the Delaware Department of Public Instruction in Grymes,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Findings of Fact ... and a list of recommended orders (recommendations) which the hearing officer believes the Secretary of Education should adopt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conducted by the State educational agency or by the local educational agency ... as determined by state law.”
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.