OLIVER v. Clairton’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Blumenschein v. Pittsburgh Housing Authority (1954), Gohld Realty Co. v. City of Hartford (1954)
51 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on Schenck v. Pittsburgh
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is for the Authority and the Redeveloper... to decide upon the terms of their contract and for the City Council to approve or reject it, and if it contains the provisions stipulated in the Urban Redevelopment Law ... it is not for the courts to pass upon the merits of suggestions as to how the contract might be strengthened by amendments the desirability and effectiveness of which are for the consideration solely of the agencies and governing body to which the Urban Redevelopment Law has committed that responsibility.””
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.