341 F. Supp. 264 - Compos v. McKeithen’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1994
4 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Bolling v. Sharpe · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · McLaughlin v. Florida · Korematsu v. United States · Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cognizant of the realities of American society, this Court would agree that an interracial home in Louisiana presents difficulties for a child, including the possible refusal by a community to accept the child, and other community pressures, born of racial prejudice, on the interracial family. A determination of reasonableness of racial classification in this statute would seem to follow recognition of such difficulties, but we regard the difficulties inherent in interracial adoption as justifying consideration of race as a relevant factor in adoption, and not as justifying race as the determinative factor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have concluded that the Louisiana adoption statute cannot be justified under equal protection scrutiny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Davis
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.