Tallulah Morgan v. John J. Kerrigan’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 580 · 1975
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably 17 Cal. 3d 280 - Crawford v. Board of Education (1976), Morgan v. Kerrigan (1976)
48 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Brown v. Board of Education · Green v. County School Board of New Kent County · Cooper v. Aaron
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not have to make findings on every proposition put to it by the parties”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The district court found that most of the black teachers in the Boston school system were teaching in schools whose student population was over 50 percent black. In 1972-1973 68 percent of the black teachers were concentrated in the 59 schools (29 percent of the total) which were majority-black. 379 F.Supp. at 459 . Further, 81 schools (40.3 percent) had never had a black teacher, and 35 others (17.4 percent) had had only one black teacher in any year since 1967-1968 (the earliest year for which figures were put in evidence). All 19 black administrators were assigned to nine majority-black schools during 1972-1973, and the five black principals were assigned to schools ranging from 66 percent to 97 percent black. While no school had a faculty which was more than 50 percent black, that fact is hardly significant in light of the fact that blacks constituted only 5.4 percent of the permanent teaching staff. 23”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The examination schools are segregated because black children fare worse on the entrance examinations than whites. These children are products of the segregated elementary classes which constituted 'tracks' to the examination schools and were more than 80% white.... Thus, the segregation of the lower schools had inevitable consequences for the examination ... schools....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wessmann v. Gittens
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.