Debra P. v. Turlington’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 397 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Love v. Turlington (1984), Appleyard v. Wallace (1985)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Goss v. Lopez
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may have covered matters not taught in the schools of the state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he expectation is that if a student attends school during those required years, and indeed more, and if he takes and passes the required courses, he will receive a diploma.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state would then have to demonstrate either that the test's racially discriminatory impact was not due to the present effects of past intentional discrimination, or that the test's use as a diploma sanction would remedy those effects. Id. at 407-08. 6 On remand, the district court tried the two issues separately. After trial on the first issue, the district court concluded that the state had met its burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the competency examination is”
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.