Holton Naacp v. City of Thomasville School District’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.3d 1257 · 2007
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2025
5 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Freeman v. Pitts · Georgia State Conference of Branches of NAACP v. Georgia · McNeal v. Tate County School District · Holton v. City of Thomasville School District · NAACP, Jacksonville Branch v. Duval County School
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The clear-error standard governs unless the district court 'applies an incorrect legal standard which taints or infects its findings of facts.' " (quoting NAACP, Jacksonville Branch v. Duval Cty. Sch. , 273 F.3d 960 , 965 (11th Cir. 2001) ). And vacatur and remand are warranted when "we cannot say”
2 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.