Burr ex rel. Burr v. Sobol’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 258 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Pihl v. Massachusetts Department of Education (1993), Heldman Th v. Sobol (1992)
18 federal appellate · 10 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. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975)
Relies on United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Dellmuth v. A Muth · Burr v. Ambach
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prospective in nature, and any effect on the state treasury would be ancillary to such relief and therefore permissible under the Eleventh Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mrs. v. Wheaton · Mrs Jc v. Wheaton
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.