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Fred S. Calhoun v. A. C. Latimer’s Empirical Analysis

1964

Citation profile

118
cited by 118 later decisions
13
cited 13 times by the Supreme Court
November 1978
most recently cited

76 federal appellate ·

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Relies on Brown v. Board of Education · Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County · Watson v. City of Memphis · Goss v. Board of Education of City of Knoxville Tennessee

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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the context in which we must interpret and apply this language [of Brown II] to plans for desegregation has been significantly altered.”
    5 later decisions 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.