Abrahamson v. Hershman’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 223 · 1983
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 24 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Town of Burlington v. Department of Education (1984), Roland M. v. Concord School Committee (1990)
40 federal appellate · 24 district · 7 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. § 1401 · 20 U.S.C. § 1412 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 20 U.S.C. § 1417
Relies on Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Connecticut v. Mohegan Tribe · Battle v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Kruelle v. New Castle County 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t follows from Rowley that the Act does not authorize residential care merely to enhance an otherwise sufficient day program.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`simply to remedy a poor home setting or to make up for some other deficit not covered by the Act. It is not the responsibility of local officials under the Act to finance foster care as such: other resources must be looked to.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the concept of education is necessarily broad”
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.