Eileen Cowell’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
17 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · In re Burlington Coat Factory Securities Litigation
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) subject matter-whether the violations constitute the same type of dis crimination, tending to connect them in a continuing violation; (2) frequency-whether the acts are recurring or more in the nature of isolated incidents; and (3) degree of permanence-whether the act had a degree of permanence which should trigger the plaintiffs awareness of and duty to assert his/her rights and whether the consequences of the act would continue even in the absence of a continuing intent to discriminate.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Ostrow · Bell v. Ostrow“Under the continuing-violation doctrine, 'when a defendant's conduct is part of a continuing practice, an action is timely so long as the last act evidencing the continuing practice falls within the limitations period.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuing course of action [that] made it impossible for the plaintiffs to enjoy the full use of their property ....”
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.