Rosa R. v. Connelly’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 435 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Ambus v. Granite Board of Education (1993), Ambus v. Granite Board of Education (1992)
16 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Kentucky v. Graham · Carnegie v. United States · Wood v. Strickland
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is true particularly in Connecticut, where actual implementation of the goals and maintenance of the public schools are the responsibility of local boards.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]eing a steward of state education policy does not make the school district an alter ego of the state”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no 'rational relationship between the punishment and the offense.'”
2 later decisions 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.