B & P DEVELOPMENT v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1992
6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Goldberg v. Kelly · Fuentes v. Shevin · Boddie v. Connecticut · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When [the Supreme Court] summarily affirm[s] without opinion the judgment of a three-judge district court [the Court] affirm[s] the judgment but not necessarily the reasoning by which it was reached. An unexplicated summary affirmance settles the issues for the parties, and is not to be read as a renunciation by this Court of doctrines previously announced in our opinions after full argument. Indeed, upon fuller consideration of an issue under plenary review, the Court has not hesitated to discard a rule which a line of summary affirmances may appear to have established.”
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.