Corbin v. County School Board’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.2d 924 · 1949
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1975 · most notably Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1970), Brown v. Board of Trustees (1951)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · State of Missouri Gaines v. Canada · Mitchell v. United States · 84 F. Supp. 253 - Corbin v. County School Board of Pulaski County, Va.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question cannot be decided by averaging the facilities provided for the two classes of pupils throughout the county and comparing one with the other, since the rights created by the Fourteenth Amendment are individual and personal and the prohibitions of the Amendment are observed only when the same or equivalent treatment is accorded to persons of different races similarly situated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The admissibility of laws separating the races in the enjoyment of privileges afforded by the State rests wholly upon the equality of the privileges which the laws give to the separated groups within the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. Elliott
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.