Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
634 federal appellate · 26 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,040 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond (1974)
634 federal appellate · 26 district · 18 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County · Shapiro v. Solman
Cited together with Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Brown v. Board of Education · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Carter v. West Feliciana Parish School Board
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 1,040 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“begin immediately to operate as unitary school systems within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of race or color.”
33 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.