Hall IV Hall III’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 25 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Sellers Sellers v. The School Board of the City of Manassas Virginia E, Gadsby v. Grasmick (1997)
5 federal appellate · 25 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
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 · Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · Anderson v. Thompson · Lone Star Steel Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]learly, Congress did not intend that a school system could discharge its duty under the [Act] by providing a program that produces some minimal academic advancement, no matter how trivial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“not create a private cause of action for damages for educational malpractice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rowley recognizes that parental participation is an important means of ensuring state compliance with the Act. Unless school systems apprise parents of their procedural protections, however, parental participation will rarely amount to anything more than parental acquiescence, because parents will presume they have no real say, and the participatory function envisioned by Rowley will go unfilled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.