Flax v. Ws Potts’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 1157 · 1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Brown v. Board of Education · Milliken v. Bradley · Milliken v. Bradley · Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularly appropriate where, as here, the implementation of the desegregation plan has continued for fifteen years without any allegations of intentional segregation on the part of the FWISD. In fact, the School District has been commended many times by the courts for its dedication to the elimination of inequality in its schools.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flax v. Ws Potts“[t]he school board's constitutional duty is to cure the continuing effects of the dual school system, not to achieve an ideal racial balance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flax v. Ws Potts“There is no constitutional mandate that each school in the school district reflect the racial composition of the school district as a whole.”
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.