Desegregation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 402 U.S. 1 - Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · 1971Most cited · 4,825 citing opinions
Desegregation' means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but 'desegregation' shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance.
How often courts cite the case defining “Desegregation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Desegregation” — 4,793 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.