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state-compelled segregation

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 373 U.S. 61 - Johnson v. State of Virginia · 1963Most cited · 199 citing opinions

State-compelled segregation in a court of justice is a manifest violation of the State's duty to deny no one the equal protection of its laws.

How often courts cite the case defining “state-compelled segregation”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “state-compelled segregation” — 199 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.