Creel v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 286 · 1976
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Daughtrey v. Carter (1978), 501 F. Supp. 544 - In Re Alien Children Education Litigation (1980)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Evans v. Cornman · Lever Bros. 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts of this case clearly show a substantial interest of Jasper and Carbon Hill residents in the operation of the Walker County school system and do not show domination by such residents over county school board elections. Accordingly, appellants have not met their burden of demonstrating that the Alabama statutes and their application here are irrational or wholly irrelevant to the state’s objective of electoral participation in the selection of county school board members. Moreover, appellants have failed to sustain their burden of showing that their proposed “fencing out” of Jasper and Carbon Hill residents from voting in county board elections is required by a compelling state interest. [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The facts of this case clearly show a substantial interest of Jasper and Carbon Hill residents in the operation of the Walker County school system and do not show domination by such residents over county school board elections. Accordingly, [plaintiffs] have not met their burden of demonstrating that the Alabama statutes and their application here are irrational or wholly irrelevant to the state’s objective of electoral participation in the selection of county school board members. * * * Moreover, [plaintiffs] have failed to sustain their burden of showing that their proposed ‘fencing out’ of Jasper and Carbon Hill residents from voting in county board elections is required by a compelling state interest. * * * We are persuaded to [leave matters of common interest to the two systems] to agreement between the city school boards and the county school board rather than to a rational and relevant plan established by the Alabama legislature, particularly when there is no evidence of invidious discrimination which might arise from domination of elections by Jasper and Carbon Hill voters, would be to unnecessarily intrude upon an area reserved to the singular capability and responsibility of the legislature.” 531 F.2d at 288-89 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Beasley“members of the Tuscaloosa County Board of Education are elected by the qualified voters of the entire county, even though part of the county is served by the separate school system of the City of Tuscaloosa, which has its own appointed board of education”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.