Clemons v. Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
228 F.2d 853 · 1956
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002 · most notably Columbus Board of Education v. Penick (1979), Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc (1984)
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Brown v. Board of Education · Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Sterling v. Constantin
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Board’s subjective purpose was no doubt, and understandably, to reflect the “spirit of the community” and avoid “racial problems,” as testified by the Superintendent of Schools. But the law of Ohio and the Constitution of the United States simply left no room for the Board’s action, whatever [subjective] motives the Board may have had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Equity will not interfere to restrain the breach of a contract, or the commission of a tort, or the violation of any right, when the legal remedy of compensatory damages would be complete and adequate.” Clemons at 857.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lough v. Blount“[T]he trial court abuses its discretion when it fails or refuses properly to apply the law to conceded or undisputed facts.”
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.