Lee v. Russell County Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 1159 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Doe v. Dekalb County School District (1998), Kelleher v. Flawn (1985)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 236
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler · Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District · 18 Cal. 3d 34 - Bakke v. Regents of University of California · 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“responsibility is the central value protected by Singleton's demotion provision. An increase in salary is not necessarily determinative, see Lee v. Macon Cty. Bd. of Educ. (Muscle Shoals), 5 Cir., 1971, 453 F.2d 1104 (black principal demoted to Head Start teacher despite fact that his salary increased), nor is the title, see Lee v. Macon Cty. Bd. of Educ. (Thomasville), [ 470 F.2d 958 (5th Cir. 1972)] (Black principal was not demoted to administrative assistant to the school superintendent. The court held that responsibilities were not "significantly different.")”
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.