Adams v. Baldwin County Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate ·

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When parents move to intervene in school desegregation cases, the important constitutional rights at stake demand a scrupulous regard for due process considerations, Jones v. Caddo Parish School Board, 499 F.2d 914 (5th Cir.1974). This Court has determined that intervention, rather than a separate action, is the proper vehicle for parents claiming inadequate representation to assert their rights. Denial of a plea in intervention, therefore, often will deprive those parties of their only opportunity to be heard. Consequently, we adhere to our earlier decisions requiring the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and to enter findings based upon an adequate record. Jones v. Caddo Parish School Board, 499 F.2d 914 (5th Cir.1974); Calhoun v. Cook, 487 F.2d 680 (5th Cir.1973). See also United States v. Perry County Board of Education, 567 F.2d 277 (5th Cir.1978).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Caddo Parish School Board · Jones v. Caddo Parish School Board

2. “The petition for intervention would bring to the attention of the district court the precise issues which the group sought to represent and the ways in which the goal of a unitary system had allegedly been frustrated. The district court could then determine whether these matters had been previously raised and resolved and/or whether the issues sought to be presented by the new group were currently known to the court and parties in the initial suit. If the court determined that the issues these new plaintiffs sought to present had been previously determined or if it found that the parties in the original action were aware of these issues and completely competent to represent the interest of the new group, it could deny intervention. If the court felt that the new group has a significant claim which it could best represent, intervention would be allowed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mannings v. School Board

3. “supported by findings based upon an adequate record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. CRUCIAL