Adams v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 · 356 F. Supp. 92 - Adams v. Richardson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, (the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) is) continuing to grant federal aid to public higher education systems which have not achieved desegregation or submitted acceptable and adequate desegregation plans in the states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Virginia.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alston v. Scott · Atkins v. Scott“[t]he process of desegregation must not place a greater burden on Black institutions or Black Students' opportunity to receive a quality public higher education [and] should take into account the unequal status of the Black colleges and the real danger that desegregation will diminish higher education opportunities for Blacks.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“lack of state-wide planning to provide more and better trained minority group * * * professionals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.