Norwood v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Lemon v. Kurtzman · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any child enrolled in private school, if deprived of free textbooks, would withdraw from private school and subsequently enroll in the public schools.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all-white, nonsectarian private schools which (had) been formed throughout the state since the inception of public school desegregation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Regan
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.