688 F. Supp. 861 - Robert D. v. Sobel’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Dell v. Board of Education Township High School District (1994), Dell ex rel. Dell v. Board of Education (1994)
7 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Kentucky v. Graham · Wilson v. Garcia · Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Maher v. Gagne · New York Gaslight Club, Inc. v. Carey
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.
“[T]he policy behind the [IDEA] of making appropriate public education available to handicapped children favored a shorter limitation period since under a longer statute of limitations the child could stay in an inappropriate program for a longer period of time because of any delay in seeking federal court review (citation omitted). [On the other hand] [t]he placement of the handicapped child would not be implicated by an action for attorney's fees incurred in the administrative proceeding under [§] 1415(e)(4)(B), since the administrative proceeding would have resolved the issue of the child's placement before the action for fees is commenced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The committee intends that S. 415 will allow the Court, ... to award fees for time spent by counsel in mandatory EHA administrative proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Having declined to attend, the [State Agency] should not thus be able to immunize [it]self from liability for attorney's fees.”
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.