Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
286 federal appellate · 26 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 648 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Hernandez v. New York (1991), Pullman-Standard v. Swint (1982)
286 federal appellate · 26 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMark Brinkman v. John J. Gilligan and Dayton Board of Education (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Washington v. Davis · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · Keyes v. School District No 1 Denver Colorado
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 648 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the measure of the post-Brown conduct of a school board under an unsatisfied duty to liquidate a dual system is the effectiveness, not the purpose, of the actions in decreasing or increasing the segregation caused by the dual system. * * * As was clearly established in Keyes and Swann, the Board had to do more than abandon its prior discriminatory purpose.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the foreseeability of segregative consequences”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“serve to perpetuate or re-establish the dual school system.”
5 later decisions 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.