Sunflower County Colored Baptist Ass'n v. Trustees of Indianola Municipal Separate School District’s Empirical Analysis
369 F.2d 795 · 1966
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2010
13 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Dombrowski v. Pfister · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Strauder v. West Virginia · Georgia v. Rachel
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o Mississippi statute, including the eminent domain statute, which confers on municipal separate school districts the power to acquire property for school purposes, or the Mississippi constitutional provision allowing the taking of property for public use, precisely conflicts and conclusively denies the federal rights of the Association.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“right to a fair trial and equal protection of the laws and [his] rights under 42 U.S.C. 1983 do not arise from legislation providing for specific civil rights in terms of racial equality . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alabama v. Conley
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.