Max v. New Trier High School District No’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 1297 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Scholes v. Lehmann (1995), United States v. Garcia-Rosa (1989)
26 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 28 U.S.C. § 2403
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Jones v. Barnes · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assessing the constitutionality of a statute is the most delicate task of a federal court. A litigant cannot require constitutional adjudication by incanting magic spells or pointing a finger at a particular clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.