Wright v. Regan’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 820 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 3121 (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 3306 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Flast v. Cohen · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sole injury [respondents] claim is the denigration they suffer as black parents and schoolchildren when their government graces with tax-exempt status educational institutions in their communities that treat members of their race as persons of lesser worth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Wright · Kurtz v. Baker“which have insubstantial or nonexistent minority enrollments, which are located in or serve desegregating public school districts, and which either— 13 "(1) were established or expanded at or about the time the public school districts in which they are located or which they serve were desegregating; 14 "(2) have been determined in adversary judicial or administrative proceedings to be racially segregated; or 15 "(3) cannot demonstrate that they do not provide racially segregated educational opportunities for white children avoiding attendance in desegregating public school systems. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Wright“(a) constitutes tangible federal financial aid and other support for racially segregated educational institutions, and 9 "(b) fosters and encourages the organization, operation and expansion of institutions providing racially segregated educational opportunities for white children avoiding attendance in desegregating public school districts and thereby interferes with the efforts of federal courts, HEW and local school authorities to desegregate public school districts which have been operating racially dual school systems.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Wright
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.