Lipscomb v. The Columbus Municipal Separate School District E the Columbus Municipal Separate School District E’s Empirical Analysis
145 F.3d 238 · 1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 federal appellate ·
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 Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Papasan v. Allain · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trust under which Mississippi operated at best created an honorary, not a mandatory, obligation on the part of the state to administer the lands for the benefit of schoolchildren.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“By abstaining in such cases, federal courts will avoid both unnecessary adjudication of federal questions and `needless friction with state policies....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when difficult and unsettled questions of state law must be resolved before a substantial federal constitutional question can be decided.”
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.