Valley v. Rapides Parish School Board’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 1221 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Holloway v. Valley (1983), Davis v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board (1983)
18 federal appellate ·
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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Milliken v. Bradley · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“existence of a few racially homogeneous schools within a school system is not per se offensive to the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he record in this case supports the [district] court's conviction that of all the proposals offered, its plan can best be expected to achieve the mandated conversion to a unitary system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are mindful that 'the scope of a district court's equitable power to remedy past wrongs is broad, for breadth and flexibility are inherent in equitable remedies.'”
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.