Evans v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
December 1976
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Relies on School Board of the City of Charlottesville v. Allen · 172 F. Supp. 508 - Evans v. Buchanan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Read against a background of geographical facts of which judicial knowledge may be taken, it provided that in many localities no colored student could ever attend a white school unless his parents thereafter changed their residence to a point closer to the white school than the colored school.” Evans v. Buchanan, D.C.D.Del.1959, 173 F.Supp. 891, 892 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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