Kemp v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
389 F.2d 178 · 1968
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1989 · most notably Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968), Raney v. Board of Education of Gould School District (1968)
37 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Bolling v. Sharpe · Brown v. Board of Education · Cooper v. Aaron · United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, it is not enough to file a plan only incorporating the policy statements. ... A plan should not only specify ‘a positive commitment to a reasonable program;’ it should also state what that program is. This embodies (1) the steps to be carried out, and (2) the time schedule to be followed in doing so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“faculty selection must remain for the broad and sensitive expertise of the School Board and its officials,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question thus becomes, when is there such faculty distribution as to provide equal opportunities to all students and to all teachers — whether white or Negro? Students in each school should have the same quality of instruction as in any other school. Every predominantly Negro school should have, wherever possible, substantially as integrated a faculty as the predominantly white school.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porcelli v. Titus
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.