Evans v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1995 · most notably Delaware State Board of Education v. Brenda Evans Alexis I. Du Pont School District v. Brenda Evans (1980), Morgan v. Kerrigan (1976)
29 federal appellate · 13 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 42 U.S.C. § 3601 (§ 801 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o the extent that segregation imposed by state law has had inter-district effects, federal courts can fashion appropriate inter-district remedies. In short, this Court, in light of the Milliken holding, is authorized to consider desegregation relief embracing more than the Wilmington district only upon findings either that school districts in New Castle County are not meaningfully separate and autonomous, or that there have been racially discriminatory acts of the state or of local school districts causing inter-district segregation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(W)here a statute, either explicitly or effectively, makes the goals of a racial minority more difficult to achieve than other related governmental interests, the statute embodies a suspect racial classification and requires a particularly strong justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“at that time . . . Wilmington and suburban districts were not meaningfully 'separate and autonomous' " because " de jure segregation in New Castle County was a cooperative venture involving both city and suburbs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.