Tower Realty, Inc. v. City of East Detroit’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 710 · 1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2015
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman · Barbier v. Connolly · Alabama State Federation of Labor Local v. McAdory
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of the legislature to authorize its municipalities to regulate and suppress all such places... as, in its judgment, are likely to be injurious to the health of its inhabitants, or to disturb people living in the immediate neighborhood..., is so clearly within the police power as to be no longer open to question”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every reasonable presumption or intendment must be indulged in favor of the validity of the ordinance; and, in case of doubt, every presumption not clearly inconsistent with the language and subject matter is to be made in favor of its constitutionality”
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.