Calhoun v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 1203 · 1975
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Ross v. Houston Independent School District (1983), Davis v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board (1983)
18 federal appellate · 1 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 Davis v. Board of School Comm'rs of Mobile Cty. · United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education · United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education · Calhoun v. Cook · Carr v. Montgomery County Board of Education
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would blink reality and authority ... to hold the Atlanta School System to be nonunitary because further integration is theoretically possible”
3 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.