G. W. Creel, of the Estate of Mrs. W. D. (Carolyn M.) Creel v. The City of Atlanta, Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
399 F.2d 777 · 1968
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Southwest Airlines Co. v. Texas International Airlines, Inc. (1977), Walsh v. Louisiana High School Athletic Ass'n (1980)
29 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Bell v. Hood · United States v. Causby · Griggs v. County of Allegheny Pennsylvania · Woodside v. City of Atlanta · Stanturf v. Sipes
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he principal and essential issue is one properly for determination by the state courts. Not only is municipal eminent domain ordinarily a local matter, but it is difficult to imagine a situation where more confusion would arise than would be the case if the parties here were allowed to simultaneously pursue both this action and the state condemnation proceeding. [Id. at 779.]”
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.