Bruce v. Stilwell’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 554 · 1953
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1970
10 federal appellate · 6 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 8 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on First Nat Bank of Greeley v. Board of Com'rs of Weld County Colo · Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America v. Slattery · Mission Independent School District v. Diserens · Bradley Lumber Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Cook v. Davis
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is undoubtedly true that the laws of Texas provide in certain instances that orders and proceedings of the local board can only be questioned by appeal to higher school authorities. But when the Board of Trustees acts without authority of law in such a manner as to deny colored students the advantages accorded to others in like situation and this is established, as here, by admitted facts, the injured persons’ right of access to the courts is absolute and complete. Cf. Carter v. School Board of Arlington County, 4 Cir., 182 F.2d 531 ; State Line Consolidated School Dist. No. 6 of Parmer County v. Farwell [Independent] School Dist., Tex.Com.App., 48 S.W.2d 616 . “The rule is well-established in Texas that in all matters pertaining to the administration of school laws involving pure questions of law as contradistin-guished from questions of fact immediate resort to the courts is proper. Mission Independent School District v. Diserens, 144 Tex. 107 , 188 S.W.2d 568 , 161 A.L.R. 877 ; Wilson v. Abilene Independent School District, Tex.Civ.App., 190 S.W.2d 406 ; State ex rel. Nevills v. Sanderson, Tex.Civ.App., 88 S.W.2d 1069 . Here, the question becomes one of law for the court since the allegations of the complaint as to discrimination, which are denied in the answer, must be taken as true on the motion to dismiss. Hilliard v. Brown, 5 Cir., 170 F.2d 397 . We hold that the trial court erred in dismissing the complaint.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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