Federal Housing Administration v. Darlington, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
218 federal appellate · 54 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 691 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998), Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission (1969)
218 federal appellate · 54 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 12 U.S.C. § 1731B · 12 U.S.C. § 1743 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Lynch v. United States · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company
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 691 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Those who do business in the regulated field cannot object if the legislative scheme is buttressed by subsequent amendments to achieve the legislative end.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Subsequent legislation which declares the intent of an earlier law is not, of course, conclusive in determining what the previous Congress meant. But the later law is entitled to weight when it comes to the problem of construction.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'So long as the Constitution authorizes the subsequently enacted legislation, the fact that its provisions limit or interfere with previously acquired rights does not condemn it.”
6 later decisions 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.