McKenzie Dc v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 1527 · 1985
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 23 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Kerkam v. McKenzie (1988), Burke County Board of Education v. Denton ex rel. Denton (1990)
34 federal appellate · 23 district · 3 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. § 1413 · 20 U.S.C. § 1414 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 29 U.S.C. § 794A · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · Smith v. Robinson · Lunceford v. District of Columbia Board of Education · 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'whether full-time placement may be considered necessary for educational purposes, or whether the residential placement is a response to medical, social or emotional problems that are segregable from the learning process.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]dequate compliance with the procedures prescribed would in most cases assure much if not all of what Congress wished in the way of substantive content in an IEP.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A description of action proposed ... by agency; an explanation of why the agency proposes ... to take action; a description of any options that the agency considered and the reasons why those options were rejected; a description of each evaluation procedure, test, record, or report the agency used as a basis for the proposed ... action; [and] a description of any other factors which are relevant to the agency’s proposal ....”
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.