BM v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Ross v. Creighton University (1992), Bell v. Board of Education (1999)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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
Relies on Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood · Codd v. Velger · 60 Cal. App. 3d 814 - Peter W. v. San Francisco Unified School District · Donohue v. Copiague Union Free 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Governmental entities liable for torts except as specifically provided by legislature. Every governmental entity is subject to liability for its torts and those of its employees acting within the scope of their employment or duties whether arising out of a governmental or proprietary function except as specifically provided by the legislature under Article II, § 18, of The Constitution of the State of Montana.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“school authorities owed the [plaintiff] a duty of reasonable care in testing and placing her in an appropriate special education program.”
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.