Ross v. Goshi’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2000 · most notably F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. (1974), Alan L. Baldwin and George Q. Cannon, Jr. v. Redwood City, Alan L. Baldwin and George Q. Cannon, Jr. v. Redwood City (1976)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Dunn v. Blumstein · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Shelton v. Tucker · Schneider v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants have made no showing that political signs reasonable in size, structure, appearance and placement constitute a safety hazard or blemish on the natural beauty of Maui County different from the many types of commercial and exempt signs expressly permitted by [the ordinance].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Runyon v. Fasi“proper balancing of the conflicting interests”
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.