Freeman v. Planning Board’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Brum v. Town of Dartmouth (1999), Swanset Development Corp. v. City of Taunton (1996)
2 federal appellate · 32 district · 41 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · Stover v. Rau · Creative Environments, Inc. v. Estabrook · Amsden v. Moran
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. [their] exercise of enjoyment of rights secured by the Constitution or the laws of either the United States or the Commonwealth, 2. have been interfered with, or attempted to be interfered with, and 3. that the interference or attempted interference was by threats, intimidation or coercion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We doubt the Legislature contemplated that every legal error committed by a local planning board, having the intended effect of requiring a landowner to alter in some way his proposed use of his property, should necessarily give rise to liability under [the MCRA]....”
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.