Nader v. Altermatt’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Winchester Woods Associates v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1991), Primerica v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1989)
2 district · 186 state decisions
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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Sierra Club v. Morton · Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[F]irst, `the party claiming aggrievement must successfully demonstrate a specific personal and legal interest in the subject matter of the decision, as distinguished from a general interest, such as is the concern of all members of the community as a whole. Second, the party claiming aggrievement must successfully establish that this specific personal and legal interest has been specially and injuriously affected by the decision.' Nader v. Altermatt, 166 Conn. 43 , 51 , 347 A.2d 89 [1974]."”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“there is a possibility, as distinguished from a certainty, that some legally protected interest . . . has been adversely affected.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[m]ere generalizations and fears are not sufficient to establish aggrievement.”
2 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.