Effie Arcala Hightower, Etc. v. Paul D. West, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 552 · 1970
Citation profile
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.
“[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“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.