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915 F.2d 155 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably League of United Latin American Citizens, Council No. 4434 v. Clements (1993), Coalition to Save Our Children v. State Board of Education (1996)
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Milliken v. Bradley · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); United States v. Yonkers Bd. of Educ., 837 F.2d 1181 (2d Cir. 1987) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court in this circuit must not dismiss a school desegregation case until at least three years after it has declared the system unitary.”), U.S. v. Overton, 834 F.2d 1171, 1175 (5th Cir.1987) (”
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.