Belanger v. Madera Unified School District’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 248 · 1992
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 39 Cal. 4th 1164 - Wells v. One2One Learning Foundation (2006), Savage v. Glendale Union High School (2003)
53 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan · Papasan v. Allain · Quern v. Jordan · Vandygriff v. Phillips
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] whether a money judgment would be satisfied out of state funds, [2] whether the entity performs central government functions, [3] whether the entity may sue or be sued, [4] whether the entity has the power to take property in its own name or only the name of the state, and [5] the corporate status of the entity-”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“local tax revenue lost to a judgment [had to] be supplanted by the interchangeable state funds already in the district budget. Any local funds withdrawn from the budget to pay a judgment [were] unavailable for educational purposes, and state funds in the budget must cover any critical educational expenses that the local funds would have covered absent the judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sato v. Orange County Department of Education · Derrick Eason Serena Eason v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry Mila Kitt Beverly J. Minnear, Derrick Eason Serena Eason v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry Mila Kitt Beverly J. Minnear, Shawn Witte, a Minor, by His Next Friend and Parent, Teresa Witte, and Teresa Witte v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry MacKe Woodard Beverly J. Minnear, Shawn Witte, a Minor, by His Next Friend and Parent, Teresa Witte, and Teresa Witte v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry MacKe Woodard Beverly J. Minnear“The state sets a revenue limit for each school district based on average attendance, subtracts property tax revenues from that limit, and allocates the balance to the school district from the state school fund. In short, the state determines the amount of money that school districts may spend per pupil and then provides the necessary state funds.”
3 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.