BARBARA R. v. Tirozzi’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2009
7 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. § 1415 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Maher v. Gagne · Smith v. Robinson · McCann v. Coughlin · Quackenbush v. Johnson City 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action or proceeding brought under this subsection, the court, in its discretion, may award reasonable attorneys fees as part of the cost to the parents or guardian of a handicapped child or youth who is the prevailing party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any significant issue in litigation which achieves some of the benefit the parties sought in bringing suit.”
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.