Robinson v. Vollert’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 87 · 1979
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Browning v. Navarro (1984), Board of Education of City School District of City of New York v. Harris (1979)
25 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1601 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · United States v. Armour & Co. · Parham v. J. L. · Adams v. Richardson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such as limiting curricular or extracurricular activities (or participation therein by children) in order to avoid the participation of minority group children in such activities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consent orders are interpreted as contracts and are to be construed only by reference to the 'four corners' of the order itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Browning v. Navarro
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.