Dove v. Parham’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1985
8 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Brown v. Board of Education · Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Cooper v. Aaron · Smith v. Texas
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be the duty of each local Board to hear and consider all witnesses appearing before the said Board and having information pertinent and relative to the matter and to consider all relevant documentary evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parham v. Dove“carried into effect, enforced and maintained, a rigid, racial segregation policy in all of its schools, which, without exception, permitted no entry of any colored child into its white schools”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parham v. Dove“an exception before such Board to the final action of the Board as constituting a denial of any right of such minor guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parham v. Dove
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.