Norfolk Redevelopment & Housing Authority v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 17 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 249 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998), Badaracco v. Commissioner (1984)
74 federal appellate · 17 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 23 U.S.C. § 123 · 42 U.S.C. § 4601 (Uniform Relocation Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 4621 · 42 U.S.C. § 4622 · 42 U.S.C. § 4630
Relies on United States v. Miller · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Robert Herd Company v. Krawill Machinery Corporation
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 249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the common law ... ought not to be deemed repealed, unless the language of a statute be clear and explicit for this purpose.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As in all cases of statutory construction, our task is to interpret the words of the statute in light of the purposes Congress sought to serve.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is a well-established principle of statutory construction that [t]he [federal] common law ... ought not to be deemed to be repealed, unless language of a statute be clear and explicit for this purposes.”
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.