Pc v. McLaughlin a a’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Ridgewood Board of Education v. N.E. (1999), Kulak v. City of New York (1996)
11 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Kentucky v. Graham
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“d[oes] not clearly establish an obligation to meet [a disabled person's] particular needs vis-a-vis the needs of other handicapped individuals, but mandates only that services provided nonhandicapped individuals not be denied [to a disabled person] because he is handicapped.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the particular actions taken by defendants were impermissible under law established at that time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. W.B., Parent of the Minor, E.J., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of Her Son, E.J. v. Joan Matula Mary Angela Engelhardt Judy Beach Catherine Brennan Patricia Cericola Dr. Gary Danielson Ann Pearce Kathleen Mahony Carol Burns Florence Noctor Dr. Jeffrey Osowski New Jersey State Board of Education Warren County Department of Education Mary Lou Varley Mansfield Board of Education State of New Jersey Department of Education Division of Special Education Employees of the Mansfield Township Board of Education · 704 So. 2d 1325 - Brown v. Houston School District“does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
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.