The School Board of the City of Newport News, Virginia, and R. O. Nelson, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Newport News, Virginia v. Jerome A. Atkins, the School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, and J. J. Brewbaker, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Norfolk, Virginia v. Leola Pearl Beckett’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 325 · 1957
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1986 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button (1963), Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Brown v. Board of Education · Cannon v. United States · United States v. Ohio Power 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It must be remembered that the decisions of the Supreme Court of United States in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, 347 U.S. 483 , 74 S. Ct. 686 , 98 L.Ed. 873 and 1955, 349 U.S. 294 , 75 S.Ct. 753 , 99 L.Ed. 1083 , do not compel the mixing of the different races in the public schools. No general reshuffling of the pupils in any school system has been commanded. The order of that Court is simply that no child shall be denied admission to a school on the basis of race or color. Indeed, just so a child is not through any form of compulsion or pressure required to stay in a certain school, or denied transfer to another school, because of his race or color, the school heads, may allow the pupil, whether white or Negro, to go to the same school as he would have attended in the absence of the ruling of the Supreme Court. Consequently, compliance with that ruling may well not necessitate such extensive changes in the school system as some anticipate.”,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dove v. Parham““ * * * As pointed out by the judge below, * * * this statute furnishes no adequate remedy to plaintiffs because of the fixed and definite policy of the school authorities with respect to segregation and because of the provisions of chapter 68 of the Acts of the Extra Session, which provide for the closing of schools and withdrawal therefrom of state funds upon any departure from this policy in any school. Orleans Parish School Board v. Bush, 5 Cir., 242 F.2d 156, 162 , certiorari denied [ 354 U.S. 921 ], 77 S.Ct. 1380 [ 1 L. Ed.2d 1436 ].” School Board of City of Newport News, Va. v. Atkins, 4 Cir., 1957, 246 F.2d 325, 326-327 .”
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.