296 F. Supp. 301 - Rentfrow v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1984
6 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A
Relies on Price v. Johnston · Lee v. Washington · 263 F. Supp. 327 - Washington v. Lee · Bernard H. Tabor v. William H. Hardwick, Warden, U. S. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia · Walker v. Blackwell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this connection, the court is not unaware that ‘[t]he association between men in correctional institutions is closer and more fraught with physical danger and psychological pressures than is almost any other kind of association between human beings.’ Washington v. Lee, 263 F.Supp. 332 (quoting from Edwards v. Sard, 250 F.Supp. 977 (D.D.C.1966)). Moreover, the court realizes that racial tensions will undoubtedly increase the friction between Reidsville inmates. But these tensions do not constitute a license for ‘violent resistance’ which, according to the petitioners, ‘should and would’ be employed by members of their class, to halt desegregation. Rather, the tensions generate a need for a higher degree of restraint, for those who follow the path of ‘violent resistance’ will not halt desegregation, but will merely bring their own conduct to a halt by disciplinary action and criminal sanctions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClelland v. Sigler
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.