Delores Clark v. The Board of Education of the Little Rock School District’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.2d 569 · 1967
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1991
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education · Local No. 8-6, Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union v. Missouri · Kemp v. Beasley
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a student is given a well publicized annual right to enter the school of his choice, coupled with periodic mandatory choices as set forth in the Board's amended plan, we can find on the face of it no unconstitutional state action. * * * Therefore, if in fact all the students wishing to transfer were fully accommodated, the Constitution would unquestionably be satisfied, and apparently under these circumstances petitioners would have little objection to the plan's operation. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The establishment ... of constitutional rights cannot be accomplished either by congressional action or executive fiat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“our absolute pole star for determining constitutional rights and duties in the area of school desegregation”
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.