critical mass
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 539 U.S. 306 - Grutter v. Bollinger · 2003Most cited · 958 citing opinions
a sufficient number of underrepresented minority students to achieve several objectives: To ensure that these minority students do not feel isolated or like spokespersons for their race; to provide adequate opportunities for the type of interaction upon which the educational benefits of diversity depend; and to challenge all students to think critically and reexamine stereotypes.
How often courts cite the case defining “critical mass”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “critical mass” — 949 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.