Carson v. Warlick’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 724 · 1956
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1974 · most notably McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia (1963), United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education (1966)
55 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 v. Board of Education · Opp Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Administrator of the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor · Lane v. Wilson · Sproles v. Binford · Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co.
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Somebody must enroll the pupils in the schools. They cannot enroll themselves; and we can think of no one better qualified to undertake the task than the officials of the schools and the school boards having the schools in charge. It is to be presumed that these will obey the law, observe the standards prescribed by the legislature, and avoid the discrimination on account of race which the Constitution forbids. Not until they have been applied to and have failed to give relief should the courts be asked to interfere in school administration.””
12 later decisions 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.