Hiram B. Ely v. Richard W. Velde, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 252 · 1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Jersey Heights Neighborhood Ass'n v. Glendening (1999), Atlanta Coalition on Transportation Crisis, Inc. v. Atlanta Regional Commission (1979)
13 federal appellate · 2 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 Presidents Council, District 25 v. Community School Board No. 25 · Arlington Coalition on Transportation v. Volpe · Named Individual Members of the San Antonio Conservation Society v. Texas Highway Department · Ely v. Velde · City of Boston v. Volpe
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A block grant is not the same as unencumbered revenue sharing, for the grant comes with strings attached.”
3 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.