Associated Enterprises, Inc. v. Toltec Watershed Improvement District’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 13 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Holt Civic Club v. City of Tuscaloosa (1978), Zimmer v. McKeithen (1973)
57 federal appellate · 13 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Cipriano v. City of Houma · Avery v. Midland County · Hadley v. Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“levy and collect taxes, issue bonds with certain restrictions, hire and fire teachers, make contracts, collect fees, supervise and discipline students, pass on petitions to annex school districts, acquire property by condemnation, and in general manage the operations of the junior college,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a governmental unit of special or limited purpose whose activities have a disproportionate effect on landowners within the district.”
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.