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← 179 USAPPDC 357 - Thompson v. Washington

Thompson v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
May 1979
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1401

Relies on Lemon v. Kurtzman · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Johnson v. United States · First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “retroactive application of the tenants' procedural rights in this case would be unjust and inappropriate by reason of the financial difficulties currently being experienced by the . . . Project,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “), this court held that tenants of low-rent public housing operated by the National Capital Housing Authority (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “decided an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed.”
    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.