Anderson v. Baehr’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2017
20 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 Edens v. City of Columbia · Elliott v. McNair · McNulty v. Owens, Mayor · Harper v. Schooler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll legislative action must serve a public rather than a private purpose. In general, a public purpose has for its objective the promotion of the public health, morals, general welfare, security, prosperity, and contentment of all the inhabitants or residents within a given political division---It is a fluid concept which changes with time, place, population, economy and countless other circumstances. It is a reflection of the changing needs of society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it permits the city to join hands with a developer and undertake projects which would be primarily to the benefit of the developer, with no assurance of more than negligible advantage to the general public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not sufficient that an undertaking bring about a remote or indirect public benefit to categorize it as a project within the sphere of `public purpose',”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.