Drinker v. Colonial School District’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2012
2 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1415 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · Honig v. Doe · School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · Town of Burlington v. Department of Education
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bear the burden of paying for the costs of Daniel's education at Gladwyne through [the district court's] review.”
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.