Evans v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably 162 W. Va. 672 - Pauley v. Kelly (1979), Buchanan Et Al. v. Evans Et Al. (1975)
10 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Brown v. Board of Education · Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · Keyes v. School District No 1 Denver Colorado
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“segregated schooling in Wilmington has never been eliminated and that there still exists a dual school system,”
2 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.