Rossi v. Gosling’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1401 · 20 U.S.C. § 1414 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Honig v. Doe · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Maher v. Gagne
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is just as likely that denying fees would protract litigation and thereby increase a school system’s liability for fees. One can easily envision a situation in which the parents’ attorney, knowing that fees are not recoverable for pre-hearing work performed in the absence of a hearing, would reject negotiations and attempt to gain the desired relief through formal proceedings. On the other hand, if fees are recoverable for pre-hearing work, the parents’ attorney would have no incentive to resist settlement, and the school system would have an incentive to settle cases as early as possible to avoid further exposure. 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“services performed in connection with [an] administrative proceeding.”
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.