Phillips v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 365 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Society for Good Will to Retarded Children, Inc. v. Cuomo (1984), Clark v. Cohen (1986)
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Southeastern Community College v. Davis · Mayor of Philadelphia v. Educational Equality League
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“minimally adequate training as is reasonable in light of their interest in freedom of movement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he obligations created by the R & S have their bases in federal and state constitutional and statutory law.... The only right of plaintiffs explicitly attributed by the settlement to the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution is the 'right to safety and protection from harm'....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lelsz v. Kavanagh
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.