Nesbit v. Statesville City Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 1040 · 1969
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1990 · most notably Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond (1974), Carter v. West Feliciana Parish School Board (1970)
35 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Relies on Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education · Beatrice Alexander v. Holmes County Board of 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All plans must include provisions for the integration of the faculty so that the ratio of Negro and white faculty members of each school shall be approximately the same as the ratio throughout the system. In determining the ratio, exceptions may be made for specialized faculty positions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As provided under the Pupil Assignment Plan of the Board for the school year 1970-1971: (1) has the Board used all reasonable means to integrate the schools in their jurisdiction, and (2) has the Board taken adequate measures to assure that no pupil is excluded from any school on the basis of race?”
1 later decision 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.