Mavis v. Sobol’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2013
2 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 1401 · 20 U.S.C. § 1412 · 20 U.S.C. § 1414 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 29 U.S.C. § 1415 (§ 4235 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Hutto v. Finney · School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · Foy v. Northeast Suburban Life
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, the primary focus of the Court’s inquiry in Briggs was whether the district court gave sufficient deference to the agency experts and hearing officer____ [T]he issue of which party bears the burden of proof ... is quite different from the district court’s obligation to afford due weight to administrative proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[a]dditional' in its ordinary usage, implies something that is added, or something that exists by way of addition. To 'add' means to join or unite; the limitation on what can be joined inherent in the term 'supplement' is not present in the term 'add.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to assure that all children with disabilities have available to them ... a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs.”
1 later decision 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.