City of Greensboro v. Simkins’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 425 · 1957
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority (1961), Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (1963)
22 federal appellate · 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 Pennsylvania v. Nelson · De Lucia v. New Jersey · Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. v. Public Service Commission · Derrington v. Plummer · Dawson v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore City
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Complaint is made of the provision of the order forbidding disposition of the golf course except by bona fide sale. It is clear, however, that this provision was inserted merely to prevent evasion of the court’s order forbidding racial discrimination in the operation of the property; for it was followed by a reservation retaining jurisdiction and the power to modify the provision upon application of any of the parties. As pointed out in the Tate case, supra, the right of citizens to use public property without discrimination on the ground of race may not be abridged by the mere leasing of the property. The city may, however, under the terms of the order, part with the ownership of the property by bona fide sale; and the court, under the power reserved, will doubtless approve other dispositions if they will not result in unlawful discrimination against citizens on the ground of race or color. Any error in the exercise of the power thus, reserved will, of course, be subject to review by this court.””
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.