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115 S. Ct. 149

Lee v. Brown

Decided October 3, 1994

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“due process challenge to the application of a city's land-use regulations, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated:”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Md. Reclamation v. Harford Cty.

Cited together with Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1994-10-03

How this case has been cited

Cited by 1,594 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale (1998)

699 federal appellate · 55 district · 280 state decisions — followed in 26 states

1.2k01994200020102020decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.

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