Kelley Langlois’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
22 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Sherman Avenue Tenants' Association v. District of Columbia, Burbank Apartments Tenant Association v. Kargman (2016)
22 district · 3 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 Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Washington v. Davis · University of Texas v. Camenisch · Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of the families initially provided tenant based assistance under section 8 by the [Rockland/Abington] Housing Authority in any fiscal year, not less than 75% shall be families whose incomes do not exceed 30% of the area median income as determined by the Secretary. The local preference policy is subordinate to this provision, and admissions to the program will be monitored to assure compliance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But to have federal judges make such policy choices is essentially to impose on them the job of making decisions that are properly made by Congress or its executive branch delegates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a demonstrated disparate impact in housing be justified by a legitimate and substantial goal of the measure in question.”
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.