Association for Retarded Citizens of Dallas v. Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center Board of Trustees’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 241 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 155 Cal. App. 4th 798 - Buckland v. Threshold Enterprises, Ltd. (2007), Fair Housing of Marin v. Combs (2002)
17 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3601 (§ 801 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that an organization redirects some of its resources to litigation and legal counseling in response to actions or inactions of another party is insufficient to impart standing upon the organization.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the association must demonstrate that its members would have standing to sue in their own right; (2) it must demonstrate that the interests it seeks to protect are germane to its organizational purpose; and (3) it must demonstrate that neither the claims nor the relief requested requires the participation of individual members in the lawsuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he organization bears no relationship to traditional membership groups because most of its 'clients'--handicapped and disabled people--are unable to participate in and guide the organization's efforts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Stincer
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.