Oliver v. Kalamazoo Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 714 · 1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Northcross v. Board of Education (1979), Garrity v. Sununu (1984)
14 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 Dann v. Johnston · Oliver v. Michigan State Board of Education · Daily v. Zurcher · 344 F. Supp. 387 - Wyatt v. Stickney · Torres v. Sachs
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 use of the multiplier was without statutory authority. The antitrust cases relied upon by the district court are inapposite since there is usually a large monetary recovery in those cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Attorney fee awards in school desegregation cases should be high enough to attract competent counsel yet not so high as to provide a windfall for them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to compensate the attorneys for vindicating important but often unpopular constitutional rights”
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.