Davis v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 883 · 1970
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Appellate journey
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 3601 (§ 801 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Brown v. Board of Education · Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our hypothetical student well might say to the Superintendent of Instruction, ‘You are excluding me from School A, two blocks from my home, because I am black, and for no other reason. How can you do this when the Supreme Court of the United States in its latest pronouncement on the subject imposes on you the duty to operate as [a] unitary school system within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of race or color?’ I would be interested to know how this question would be answered.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Mobile County school system has almost totally failed to comply with the faculty ratio requirement although ordered to do so by the district court on August 1, 1969.” (Emphasis added.)”
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.