Arkansas Education Association v. Board of Education of the Portland, Arkansas School District, Arkansas Education Association v. Board of Education of the Portland, Arkansas School District, Cross-Appellants’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
51 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Hansberry v. Lee · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case some of the teachers no longer teach in the Portland, Arkansas School District; those teachers who remain in the school system could have a natural fear or reluctance to bring this action on an individual basis; and subsequent to filing this action a nondiscriminatory salary schedule was adopted, thereby reducing the potential members of the class and lessening the chance of individual actions by the black teachers affected thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) class action for injunctive relief and damages properly brought under Rule 23(a) and (b)(2) should not be dismissed merely because a subsequent change in policy by the defendant has eliminated the necessity for future injunctive relief, leaving only the question of past damages for determination by the Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simer v. Rios“The crucial question in this case is whether the evidence demonstrates that there existed in Little Rock before the trial and continuing at the time of the trial a policy or custom of paying negro teachers less for comparable service than was paid to white teachers solely on the basis of race or color.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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