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· 5/13/1974

United States v. Louis W. Whitley

Citations

  • 491 F.2d 1248

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that comparative disparity calculation \is ordinarily inappropriate\ where a very small proportion of the population is involved and opining that it \distorts reality\
  • finding comparative disparity is “inappropriate where a small proportion of the population is black”
  • “[T]he smaller the group is, the more the comparative disparity figure distorts the proportional representation.”

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Judges: Heaney, Stephenson, Webster

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