Bryant Woods Inn Incorporated v. Howard County Maryland’s Empirical Analysis
124 F.3d 597 · 1997
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 21 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Colandrea v. Wilde Lake Community Ass'n (2000), Tsombanidis v. West Haven Fire Department (2003)
25 federal appellate · 21 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Relationships
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Hudson v. Palmer · Califano v. Sanders · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“element ... requires the demonstration of a direct linkage between the proposed accommodation and the”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A blind applicant for rental housing wants to live in a dwelling unit with a seeing eye dog. The building has a no pets policy. It is a violation of § 100.204 for the owner or manager of the apartment complex to refuse to permit the applicant to live in the apartment with a seeing eye dog because, without the seeing eye dog, the blind person will not have an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling. 7”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is (1) reasonable and (2) necessary (3) to afford handicapped persons equal opportunity to use and enjoy housing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.