Nicholas M. Block, II v. Ronnie Thompson, Mayor of the City of MacOn Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 587 · 1973
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2006
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · California v. LaRue · Hornsby v. Allen · Barnes v. Merritt · Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But although we hold this invalid on this record, this is a long way from reversing with directions to enter a mandatory order. For the right of the state to regulate liquor is broad, Mayhue’s Super Liquor Store, Inc. v. Meiklejohn, 5 Cir., 1970, 426 F.2d 142 ; California v. LaRue, 1972, 409 U.S. 109 , 93 S.Ct. 390 , 34 L.Ed.2d 342 , and the city of Macon should have an opportunity of enacting within a reasonable time 4 to be fixed by the Judge, an ordinance which will pass the Hornsby muster as to criteria and suitable hearing. We cannot forecast either the outcome under the new ordinance or its adequacy in a constitutional sense. That must be for another day — and if Macon does the job right, hopefully that day will never come.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pupa v. Thompson
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.