Geier v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2005
9 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Adams v. Richardson · Austin Independent School District v. United States · Sanders v. Ellington · Geier v. Dunn
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the phenomenon of a black Tennessee State, so long as it exists, negates both the contention that defendants have dismantled the dual system of public higher education in Tennessee, as ordered by this court, and the contention that they are, in any realistic sense, on their way to doing so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“have been egregious examples of constitutional violations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Geier v. Alexander
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.