Hardy v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 1165 · 1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably Ayers v. Western Line Consolidated School District (1977), Moore v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board (1979)
15 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 Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Washington v. Davis · Keyes v. School District No 1 Denver Colorado · Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District · Lee v. Macon 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Both the requirement that displacements be [effected] only in accordance with written, objective criteria and the requirement that displaced personnel be given a right of first refusal of subsequent vacancies are standards of conduct imposed upon school boards under court order.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was 'not persuaded' that defendants' decisions concerning plaintiff were racially motivated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hardy v. Porter“to the desegregation process and to the inequities which Singleton is intended to remedy.”
1 later decision 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.