Youngstrom v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.2d 948 · 1971
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1997
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 David v. Cohen · Holmes v. Eddy · Gross v. Sederstrom · Paul Sulger v. B. H. Pochyla, Constance Pochyla, Thomas A. Ryan and Katherine Ryan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessarily involved the exercising of evaluative judgment by him. The FHA standards were merely general. They were not, and within the realities of the construction field, could not have been made to be, of such minuteness and preciseness as would cause the Supervisor’s responsibility to constitute merely a mechanical check-off task. Thus the evaluation and approval which the Supervisor was required to make clearly represented what historically has been termed a discretionary function and not a ministerial one.”
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.