Meredith v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.2d 696 · 1962
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Jake ROWE Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee (1972), Local 189 v. United States (1969)
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 v. Board of Education · Rodriguez v. New York · Abel v. United States · Union Oil Co. v. California · United States of America Ex Rel. Robert Lee Goldsby v. William Harpole, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 1958-1959 allocation of state appropriated funds for Senior Colleges broken down on the basis of the amount allocated per student, is as follows: 1. Alcorn A. & M. College — (Negro) ..............$747.65 2. Mississippi Vocational ■— (Negro) .............. 725.09 3. University of Mississippi — (White) .............. 675.69 4. Delta State College — (White) .............. 652.54 5. Miss. State College for Women — (White) ____ 552.53 6. Jackson State College ■— (Negro) .............. 476.47 7. Mississippi State University — (White) ........... 454.67 8. Mississippi Southern College — (White) ............ 387.10 Race Relations Law Reporter 467 (1959). There is a state constitutional provision and several state statutes requiring segregation in the public schools. E.g., Miss.Constitution, 1956, Art. 8, § 207; Miss.Code, 1942, § 6220.5, 6328.03. It is common knowledge that the white universities listed above will not engage in any athletic contest with any university having Negro players on its team. In 1961 Mississippi State, basketball champions of the Southeastern Conference, declined an invitation to play in the N.C. A.A. tournament for the national championship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meredith v. Fair““The existence of this policy is an important factor in determining the purposes and effects of statutes and actions superficially innocuous. The existence of the policy and its effect as a guiding force, however, do not relieve the plaintiff of the necessity of showing in this case that the policy was applied to him to produce discrimination on the ground of race. James Meredith, like any applicant for admission to a university, may be denied admission on non-discriminatory grounds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that there are no Negro alumni of the University of Mississippi, the manifest unlikelihood of there being more than a handful of alumni, if any, who would recommend a Negro for the University, the traditional social barriers making it unlikely, if not impossible, for a Negro to approach alumni with a request for such a recommendation, the possibility of reprisals if alumni should recommend a Negro for admission, are barriers only to qualified Negro applicants.””
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.