Cox v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 414 · 1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 28 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Lester v. Gilhool (1990), Rann v. Chao (2003)
9 federal appellate · 28 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. § 1401 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on McKart v. United States · Honig v. Doe · Ezratty v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico · Riley v. Ambach · Robinson v. Pinderhughes
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t prevents courts from interrupting the administrative process permanently; it allows the agency to apply its specialized expertise to the problem; it gives the agency an opportunity to correct its own errors; it ensures that there will be a complete factual record for the court to review; and it prevents the parties from undermining the agency by deliberately flouting the administrative process.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A] party must pursue all administrative avenues of redress' under the IDEA before seeking judicial review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]wo sound policies support the requirement that plaintiffs exhaust administrative remedies before bringing federal actions. First, ... [i]f the expert agency cannot resolve the problem finally, the record made in the administrative proceedings will be extremely helpful to the court, since the administrative agency will likely have probed the issue with more expertise than a federal. court could bring.... Second, the states as well as the federal government have an interest in providing a means whereby official abuse can be corrected without resort to lengthy and costly trial.”
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.