Anderson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 1205 · 1981
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 27 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably Smith v. Robinson (1984), Town of Burlington v. Department of Education (1984)
63 federal appellate · 27 district · 14 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. § 1412 · 20 U.S.C. § 1414 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 29 U.S.C. § 794A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Cort v. Ash · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Brown v. General Services Administration · Maine v. Thiboutot
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grant such relief as the court determines is appropriate.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage““During the pendency of any proceedings conducted pursuant to this section, unless the State or local educational agency and the parents or guardian otherwise agree, the child shall remain in the then current educational placement of such child, or, if applying for initial admission to a public school, shall, with the consent of the parents or guardian, be placed in the public school program until all such proceedings have been completed.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]ecause we are certain that parents have the right to move their handicapped children to private schools, we view section 615(e)(3) as expressing a congressional preference rather than as creating a statutory duty.”
2 later decisions 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.