Kemp v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. ““We do not rule that busing is a constitutional imperative. Busing is only one possible tool in the implementation of unitary schools. * * * It may or may not be feasible to use it, in whole or in part * * *. “We do not rule that precise racial percentages across the District at the respective elementary, junior high, and high school levels are as yet constitutionally required. Evidently, when precise Percentages are achieved, suspicion does tend to vanish. But we are not yet prepared for the sacrifice of other values at the altar of uniform percentages”, p. 857. “We do not read Alexander as demanding strict percentages. Alexander lays stress upon ‘unitary schools’ and upon the elimination of any ‘dual school system based on race.’ Its emphasis is on the system ‘within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of race or color.’ 396 U.S. at 20 , 90 S.Ct. [29] at 30. What appears to be important are the words ‘effectively excluded.’ ” p. 858.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Northcross v. Board of Education