Alexander v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 17 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Toll v. Moreno (1982), Norfolk Redevelopment & Housing Authority v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia (1983)
52 federal appellate · 17 district · 30 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAlexander v. U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1701T · 12 U.S.C. § 1701Z · 12 U.S.C. § 1713 · 12 U.S.C. § 1715 · 12 U.S.C. § 1715K · 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 42 U.S.C. § 1441 (Housing Act of 1949)
Relies on Addington v. Texas · Williamson v. United States · Barrett v. United States · Alexander v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In sum, the legislative history of the written order clause reveals no congressional intent to extend relocation benefits beyond the acquisition context.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“program or project undertaken by a Federal agency, or with Federal financial assistance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Declaration of policy The purpose of this subchapter is to establish a uniform policy for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced as a result of Federal and federally assisted programs in order that such persons shall not suffer disproportionate injuries as a result of programs designed for the benefit of the public as a whole.”
2 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.