Spurlock v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
716 F.3d 383 · 2013
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 6311
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Washington v. Davis · Hernandez v. New York
Most-quoted passages
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2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“obtaining this data and including some of it in the Rezoning Plan shows that the Plan classifies students by race” because”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plaintiffs have been unable to cite to any provision of the Rezoning Plan that classifies students by race or that uses race as a factor in school assignment because there is no such provision. Instead, the Plan classifies students on the basis of geography. The only factor that determines a student’s school choices is his or her place of residence, regardless of race. And there is no provision of the Plan that requires a specific “balance” of racial groups in each school or each cluster. So the answer to the question of whether the Plan classifies students by race is a clear “no.””
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.