Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1,294 federal appellate · 562 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,999 later decisions (93 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992), Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998)
1,294 federal appellate · 562 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedVillage of Bellwood v. Gladstone Realtors (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 3601 (§ 801 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3602 (§ 802 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3604 (§ 804 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3610 (§ 810 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3612 (§ 812 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Udall v. Tallman · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
Cited together with Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Allen v. Wright
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 3,999 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show that he personally has suffered some actual or threatened injury as a result of the putatively illegal conduct of the defendant,”
123 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept as true all material allegations of the complaint, and ... construe the complaint in favor of the complaining party.”
69 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is likely to be redressed by a favorable decision,”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.