424 F. Supp. 875 - Evans v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995 · most notably Adams v. United States (1980), Evans v. Buchanan (1977)
2 federal appellate · 10 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. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Milliken v. Bradley · A. O. Smith Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1282. Inland Steel Company v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1283. Northwest Industries, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1284. Oscar Mayer & Co. Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1285. Merck & Co., Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1286. Hobart Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1287. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1288. Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, in No. 75--1289 · Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association v. Federal Power Commission · Austin Independent School District v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““inter-district remedy would be appropriate, based on its findings that: “1) there had been a failure to alter the historic pattern of inter-district segregation in Northern New Castle County; “2) governmental authorities at the state and local levels were responsible to a significant degree for increasing ■the [racial] disparity in residential and school populations between Wilmington and the suburbs; “3) the City of Wilmington had been unconstitutionally excluded from other school districts by the State Board of Education, pursuant to a withholding of reorganization powers under the Delaware Educational Advancement Act of 1968.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c) Injunction pending appeal. When an appeal is taken from an interlocutory or final judgment granting, dissolving, or denying an injunction, the court in its discretion may suspend, modify, restore, or grant an injunction during the pendency of the appeal upon such terms as to bond or otherwise as it considers proper for the security of the rights of the adverse party .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Briefly stated, a party seeking a stay must show (1) that he will likely prevail on the merits of the appeal, (2) that he will suffer irreparable injury if the stay is denied, (3) that other parties will not be substantially harmed by the stay, and (4) that the public interest will be served by granting the stay.”
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.