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separate educational facilities

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 347 U.S. 483 - Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · 1954Most cited · 8,217 citing opinions

in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

How often courts cite the case defining “separate educational facilities”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “separate educational facilities” — 8,167 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.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1954–1954

  1. in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.