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Effie Arcala Hightower, Etc. v. Paul D. West, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis

430 F.2d 552 · 1970

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
January 1978
most recently cited

28 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education · Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District · Carter v. West Feliciana Parish School Board

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

  1. “[a]s in so many other eases, these majority-black and all-black schools are the product of residential segregation and, historically, the location of schools to serve a segregated community.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Every black student at some point in his school career will be exposed to complete desegregation: no high school is less than seventy percent white”
    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.