Drinker v. Colonial School District’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.3d 859 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 22 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably John Paul T v. The Delaware County Intermediate Unit (2003), Susquenita School District v. Raelee S. ex rel. Heidi S. (1996)
26 federal appellate · 22 district · 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
Relies on Honig v. Doe · School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · Thomas v. Cincinnati Board of Education · Monahan v. State of Nebraska · 491 F. Supp. 1074 - Monahan v. State of Neb.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“during the pendency of any proceedings conducted pursuant to this section.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress' policy choice that all handicapped children, regardless of whether their case is meritorious or not, are to remain in their current educational placement until the dispute with regard to their placement is ultimately resolved.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“function[ ], in essence as an automatic preliminary injunction”
5 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.