¶2Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina.
349 U.S. 914
Briggs v. Elliott
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 25, 1955
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1955-04-25
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1955-04-25
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably Steiner v. Mitchell (1956), Carbo v. United States (1963)
119 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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.
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