Crawford v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Dillon Companies, Inc. v. City of Boulder (1973), 27 Ariz. App. 600 - Town of Paradise Valley v. Gulf Leisure Corp. (1976)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 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
Relies on City and County of Denver v. Stackhouse · Piz v. Housing Authority · Cline v. City of Boulder · Franks v. City of Aurora · Moreno v. Commercial Security Bank
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“doctrine is founded upon principles of fair dealing and is designed to aid the law in the administration of justice where, without its aid, injustice might result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Clines obtained a permit merely as a tactic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.