Borders v. Rippy’s Empirical Analysis
247 F.2d 268 · 1957
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1975 · most notably McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia (1963), United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education (1966)
48 federal appellate · 2 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. · Brown v. Board of Education · Orleans Parish School Board v. Bush · Holophane Co. v. United States · Browder v. Gayle
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pupils may, of course, be separated according to their degree of advancement or retardation, their ability to learn, on account of their health, or for any other legitimate reason, but each child is entitled to be treated as an individual without regard to his race or color.”
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.