Crawford et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles et al.

Decided June 30, 1982. Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 81-38 · 458 U.S. 527 (1982) · Cited 140 times

Holding

Proposition I does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 8–1.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. Source: the Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.), Washington University.

Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Hunter v. Erickson · 393 U.S. 385 (1969)
• Reitman v. Mulkey · 387 U.S. 369 (1967)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• Washington v. Davis · 426 U.S. 229 (1976)
• Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · 442 U.S. 256 (1979)
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · 402 U.S. 1 (1971)
• Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · 433 U.S. 406 (1977)
• James v. Valtierra · 402 U.S. 137 (1971)
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button · 371 U.S. 415 (1963)
• Plyler v. Doe · 457 U.S. 202 (1982)
• United States v. Carolene Products Co. · 304 U.S. 144 (1938)
• Tigner v. Texas · 310 U.S. 141 (1940)
• Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · 377 U.S. 713 (1964)
• Palmer v. Thompson · 403 U.S. 217 (1971)
• North Carolina State Board of Education v. Swann · 402 U.S. 43 (1971)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 · 551 U.S. 701 (2007)
• McCleskey v. Kemp · 481 U.S. 279 (1987)
• Kansas v. Hendricks · 521 U.S. 346 (1997)
• Christian Legal Soc. Chapter of Univ. of Cal., Hastings College of Law v. Martinez · 561 U.S. 661 (2010)

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