Warth v. Seldin’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 1187 · 1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2003
9 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 3610 (§ 810 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · Sierra Club v. Morton · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essence of their complaint is that the zoning practices of the appellees are unfair. However true that charge may be, absent a showing that appellants themselves have suffered from these practices they lack standing to challenge them. Their dispute with appellees reflects primarily a political disgruntlement. They indicate no benefit which a judgment favorable to them would produce. They allege neither capability nor intent to construct housing for themselves on any land which the court might order rezoned as an element of relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]s a general rule the interests of a federal taxpayer in federal expenditures are too “minute and indeterminable . . . fluctuating and uncertain” to provide a basis for standing. Frothingham v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447, 487 , 43 S.Ct. 597, 601 , 67 L.Ed. 1078 (1923). 495 F.2d at 1191 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is highly doubtful that an organization has standing to represent its members in most cases under the Civil Rights Act.”
1 later decision 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.