Lindsey v. Normet’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
378 federal appellate · 118 district · 643 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,687 later decisions (81 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977), Fuentes v. Shevin (1972)
378 federal appellate · 118 district · 643 state decisions — followed in 46 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 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson
Cited together with San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Dandridge v. Williams · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Boddie v. Connecticut · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 1,687 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not denigrate the importance of decent, safe, and sanitary housing. But the Constitution does not provide judicial remedies for every social and economic ill.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state may properly take steps to insure than an appellant post adequate security before an appeal to preserve the property at issue (or) to guard a damage award already made.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it cannot be granted to some litigants and capriciously or arbitrarily denied to others without violating the Equal Protection Clause.”
15 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.