Anthony v. Marshall County Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 federal appellate ·

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Green emphasizes that school officials have a continuing duty to take whatever action may be necessary to provide ‘prompt and effective disestablishment of a dual system.’ If one method is ineffective, they are to try another. Hence, no single plan is or can be judicially approved as a catho-licon. “Brown I and all of its successors, as well as Green, Monroe, and Raney, contemplate that school plans will be prepared by local officials and school boards, not by courts. But if local officials fail to assume their responsibilities under the Constitution, district courts must continue to attempt to for-muíate the plans that should be prepared by school officials based on their expert knowledge, training and skill.” (Citations omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hall v. St. Helena Parish School Board

2. ““In declining to order discontinuance of the ‘freedom of choice’ plans and substitute therefor pairing or zoning, the District Court said that it based its ruling in part on the fact that white students would flee from public schools where Negro pupils heavily preponderated and that there would be a ‘wholesale withdrawal’ by white students. Such a conclusion is precluded by the clear mandate of the Supreme Court in Green.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Board of Education of Lincoln County