· 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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