Monroe v. Board of Commissioners of Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
358 federal appellate · 21 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 714 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Flast v. Cohen (1968)
358 federal appellate · 21 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBrenda K. Monroe v. Board of Commissioners, City of Jackson, Tennessee, and County Board of Education, Madison County, Tennessee (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Brown v. Board of Education · Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · Raney v. Board of Education of Gould School District
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 714 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmative duty to take whatever steps might be necessary to convert to a unitary system in which racial discrimination would be eliminated root and branch,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“will further rather than delay conversion to a unitary, nonracial nondiscriminatory school system.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““it should go without saying that the vitality of these constitutional principles cannot be allowed to yield simply because of disagreement with them.” Brown II, [ 349 U.S. 294 (1955)] at 300 [ 75 S.Ct. 753 , 756, 99 L.Ed. 1083 ].”
6 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.