DRUMMOND Et Al. v. ACREE Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 6 district ·
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1652 (§ 802 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 20 U.S.C. § 1653 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Robert L. Acree, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. County Board of Education of Richmond County, Georgia, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants v. Ann Gunter Drummond, Intervenors-Appellees-Cross-Appellants · 336 F. Supp. 1275 - Acree v. Drummond
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the purposes of achieving a balance among students with respect to race * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If we were to read the holding of the District Court to require, as a matter of substantive constitutional right, any particular degree of racial balance or mixing, that approach would be disapproved and we would be obliged to reverse. The constitutional command to desegregate schools does not mean that every school in every community must always reflect the racial composition of the school system as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to postpone the effectiveness of transportation orders in 'de facto' cases and in cases in which the district court judges have misused their remedial powers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Kerrigan
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.