Agins v. City of Tiburon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
547 federal appellate · 179 district · 1,086 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,669 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City (1985), Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
547 federal appellate · 179 district · 1,086 state decisions — followed in 44 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · United States v. Causby · Kaiser Aetna v. United States
Cited together with Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles
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 2,669 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“den[y] an owner economically viable use of his land.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“incidents of ownership. They cannot be considered as a 'taking' in the constitutional sense.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a shorthand description of the manner in which a landowner recovers just compensation for a taking of his property when condemnation proceedings have not been instituted.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.