Tokarcik v. Forest Hills School District’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 443 · 1981
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Irving Independent School District v. Tatro (1984), Ridgewood Board of Education v. N.E. (1999)
75 federal appellate · 15 district · 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
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Maine v. Thiboutot · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Southeastern Community College v. Davis
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall receive the records of the administrative proceedings, shall hear additional evidence at the request of a party, and basing its decision on the preponderance of the evidence, shall grant such relief as the court determines appropriate.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dell ex rel. Dell v. Board of Education · John Schimmel, a Minor, by His Parents and Next Friends John & Betty Schimmel and John Schimmel, Betty Schimmel v. Robert Spillane, Supt. Fairfax Co. Public Schools Fairfax Co. Bd. Of Education John Davis, Supt. Va. Dept. Of Education, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia, Inc., Amicus Curiae. John Schimmel, a Minor, by His Parents and Next Friends John & Betty Schimmel and John Schimmel, Betty Schimmel v. Robert Spillane, Supt. Fairfax Co. Public Schools Fairfax Co. Bd. Of Education, and John Davis, Supt. Va. Dept. Of Education, John Schimmel, a Minor, by His Parents and Next Friends John & Betty Schimmel and John Schimmel, Betty Schimmel v. John Davis, Supt. Va. Dept. Of Education, and Robert Spillane, Supt. Fairfax Co. Public Schools Fairfax Co. Bd. Of Education“Notwithstanding the Carson qualification that interlocutory orders pose 'serious perhaps irreparable consequences,' the appealability of a routine interlocutory injunctive order remains unquestioned.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provision is premised on the rationale that preservation of the status quo, rather than an inappropriate reaction to an emergent situation, provides for the best interests of the child. The”
2 later decisions 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.