Terry Belk’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2004), Comfort Ex Rel. Neumyer v. Lynn School Committee (2003)
5 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Skidmore v. Swift & 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No decisions are more sensitive and difficult than those involving public schools, and no process is more wrenching than that of matching limited resources to a limitless array of educational needs. But these challenges are better met by communities than by courts and, after thirty-five years of sporadic judicial supervision, the time has come to conclude. If not now, when? Each child is a human being to educate. If this essential task of education has become too daunting for democracy, then I know not who we are or what we shall become.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“• It was bad faith for Biovail to respond to a pleading using general objections. However, Biovail did act in good faith trying to resolve the discovery dispute. • There was no prejudice to Pfizer or My-lan because they received the information, albeit late. • The need for deterrence of the particular sort of non-compliance is of the highest magnitude—to stop lawyers from wilfully and intentionally flouting the rules. • Less drastic sanctions of significant reasonable expenses coupled with a warning should be given a chance to be effective. We shall see.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is well established that once a court has found an unlawful dual school system, the plaintiffs are entitled to the presumption that current disparities are causally related to prior segregation, and the burden of proving otherwise rests on the defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.