Columbia Basin Apartment Ass'n v. City of Pasco’s Empirical Analysis
268 F.3d 791 · 2001
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky (2009), RK Ventures, Inc. v. City of Seattle (2002)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Younger v. Harris · Chimel v. California · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a City of Pasco Code Enforcement Officer, (2) the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, (3) certified private inspectors approved by the City, (4) a Washington licensed structural engineer”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In short, as the [United States Supreme] Court has often repeated, the mere potential for conflict in the results of adjudications is not the kind of `interference' that merits federal court abstention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“sensitive area of social policy into which the federal courts should not lightly intrude.”
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.