Gerks v. Deathe’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Ingraham v. Wright · Penson v. Ohio · Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that at some point of excessiveness or brutality, a public school child's substantive due process rights are violated by beatings administered by government paid school officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a rational jury could find that [the teacher's] actions were so demeaning and harmful to [the student] that they might have violated her substantive due process rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the [high] threshold for recovery on the constitutional tort for excessive corporal punishment.”
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.