William H. Adkins v. The Duval County School Board, Jeff Dolan Willmon, Jr. v. Nassau County School Board, Ruch B. Wilson v. The Duval County School Board’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 690 · 1975
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Curran v. Portland Superintending School Committee (1977), Campbell v. Gadsden County District School Board (1976)
16 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Monroe v. Pape · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Patterson v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, cus tom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““In all of the cases before us none of the individual members of the three school boards and no officials of the boards were defendants when the cases were dismissed. Had there been individual party defendants, whom this Court has previously held to be ‘persons’ for the purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , the trial court could not, of course, have dismissed the suits for failure to allege a proper jurisdictional basis.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.