Cole v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Alexander v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (1979), Russell v. Landrieu (1980)
16 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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. § 1713 · 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 12 U.S.C. § 1718 · 42 U.S.C. § 1401 · 42 U.S.C. § 1441A · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association v. Federal Power Commission, Blue Ridge Gas Company, Intervenor. Petition for Review of Order of the Federal Power Commission, No. 14583. Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association v. Federal Power Commission, Appeal From United States District Court for the District of Columbia · Miller Et Al. v. United States · Maryland - National Capital Park & Planning Commission v. U. S. Postal Service
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Congress did not intend HUD to be a commercial lending agency_ The Secretary cannot avoid giving full consideration to all available options to effectuate national housing policy.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(а) It is the policy of the United States that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) shall manage and dispose of multifamily housing projects in a manner consistent with the National Housing Act and this section. The purpose of the property management and disposition program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be to manage and dispose of projects in a manner which will protect the financial interests of the Federal Government and be less costly to the Federal Government than other reasonable alternatives by which the Secretary can further the goals of— (1) Preserving the housing units so that at least those units which are occupied by low- and moderate-income persons or which are vacant, at the time of acquisition, are available to and affordable by such persons; (2) Preserving and revitalizing residential neighborhoods; (3) Maintaining the existing housing stock in a decent, safe, and sanitary condition; (4) Minimizing the involuntary displacement of tenants; (5) Minimizing the need to demolish projects; and (б) Maintaining the project for the purpose of providing rental or cooperative housing. The Secretary, in determining the manner by which á project shall be managed or disposed of, may balance competing goals in a manner which will further the achievement of the overall purpose of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is one of those distinctive cases referred to by Judge, later Chief Justice, Taft, in which “the status quo is a condition not of rest, but of action, and the condition of rest is exactly what will inflict irreparable injury.” Toledo RR v. Pennsylvania Co., 54 F. 730, 741 (CC Ohio 1893). Mandatory, not merely prohibitory, relief is required at this stage to prevent continuing injury to the plaintiffs, irreparable in nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.