Doe v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Mm Dm Em v. School District of Greenville County Mm Dm Em (2002), Covington v. Knox County School System (2000)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Honig v. Doe · School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · In re Disbarment of Sacco · Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“policy rationales for the administrative exhaustion requirement: 29 States are given the power to place themselves in compliance with the law, and the incentive to develop a regular system for fairly resolving conflicts under the Act. Federal courts--generalists with no expertise in the educational needs of handicapped students--are given the benefit of expert factfinding by a state agency devoted to this very purpose. Such a mechanism is necessary to give effect to a fundamental policy underlying the [IDEA]:”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n order for a reviewing court to accord 'due weight' to state administrative proceedings, the court must accommodate the procedures contemplated by the Act so that there is an administrative record to review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“basic floor of opportunity ... consist[ing] of access to specialized institutions and related services which are individually designed to provide educational benefit to the handicapped child.”
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.