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699 F.2d 1078 · 1983

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
states following
March 2006
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Georgia State Conference of Branches of NAACP v. Georgia (1985), Miener v. Missouri (1986)

19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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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. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1401 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Miener v. State · Monahan v. State of Nebraska · Anderson v. Thompson · 464 F. Supp. 1104 - Boxall v. Sequoia Union High 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “to assure that all handicapped children have available to them ... a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs, to assure that the rights of handicapped children and their parents or guardians are protected, to assist States and localities to provide for the education of all handicapped children, and to assess and assure the effectiveness of efforts to educate handicapped children.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[a]s a general rule, compensatory damages are not available under the [EHA].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “has been interpreted to provide a cause of action for compensatory damages.”
    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.