GOMPERTS Et Al. v. CHASE Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1995 · most notably Vivian Spencer v. George F. Kugler (1972), Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School District (1972)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 · 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. · Plessy v. Ferguson · Sweatt v. Painter · State of Missouri Gaines v. Canada · McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether any of these factors add up to de jure segregation in the sense of that state action we condemned in [Brown I] is a question not yet decided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“residential segregation, fostered by state enforced restrictive covenants [which] resulted in segregated schools.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a system whereby the educational inequalities are shared by the several races.”
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.