Doe v. Anrig Doe’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 30 · 1984
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Town of Burlington v. Department of Education (1984), United States v. Ven-Fuel, Inc. (1985)
56 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1415
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · Helvering v. Gowran · Messenger v. Anderson · Infelice v. United States
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are, of course, free to affirm a district court's decision 'on any ground supported by the record even if the issue was not pleaded, tried or otherwise referred to in the proceedings below.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not rigidly bind a court to its former decisions, but is only addressed to its good sense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the phrase, law of the case, as applied to the effect of previous orders on the later action of the court rendering them in the same case, merely expresses the practice of courts generally to refuse to reopen what has been decided, not a limit to their power”
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.