Bruce Buckles’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2020
4 district ·
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Butz v. Economou · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Hafer v. Melo
Most-quoted passages
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“general regulations were unreasonable as applied " to the Buckles, Del Monte Dunes did not address this issue. And, unlike Del Monte Dunes, the Buckles do not claim that King County failed to follow their zoning ordinances, but rather that it was unfair that the county chose to leave intact the established demarcation of residential versus commercial and not to expand the commercial zone by adding the Buckles' property. 54 Second, under the Buckles' theory, Del Monte Dunes would swallow long-standing summary judgment principles and always require a jury trial to determine whether the government's interests were legitimate and substantial. But Del Monte Dunes did not alter or even consider the traditional summary judgment standards. The Del Monte Dunes case was full of five years of factual disputes that went to the jury on jury instructions that were not even challenged by the city. The circumstances here are vastly different. Although identifying the alleged taking is not easy because the Buckles advance a number of variations on a single theory, two consistent arguments emerge: (1) that King County took the Buckles' property when it was redesignated as Rural Residential rather than Rural Neighborhood; and (2) the zoning is an illegal spot zone. As to the first argument, the county cannot "take”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he doctrine of judicial immunity is supported by a long-settled understanding that the independent and impartial exercise of judgment vital to the judiciary' might be impaired by exposure to potential damages ■ liability. Accordingly, the “touchstone” for the doctrine’s applicability has been “performance of the function of resolving disputes between parties, or of authoritatively adjudicating private rights.” When judicial immunity is extended to officials other than judges, it is because their judgments are “functionality] comparab[le]” 'to those of judges-that is, because they, too, “exercise a discretionary judgment” as part of their function.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“continued validity of part or parts of the plan or regulation would substantially interfere with the fulfillment of the goals of [the Growth Management Act]. " RCW 36.70A.302(1). 11 Our analysis of the Board's immunity begins with a central tenet of American jurisprudence--no one is above the law: 12 No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. 13 United States v. Lee, 106 U.S. 196, 220 (1882). This principle, in turn, requires that a public official seeking "absolute exemption from personal liability for unconstitutional conduct must bear the burden of showing that public policy requires an exemption of that scope.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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