Brookhaven Housing Coalition Naacp v. Solomon E W’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2018
1 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 Warth v. Seldin · Bell v. Hood · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Cort v. Ash · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o consummate an enforceable agreement, the parties must not only believe that they have made a contract, they must also have expressed their intent in a manner susceptible of judicial interpretation. If essential terms of an agreement are omitted or are phrased in too indefinite a manner, no legally enforceable contract will result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provide whatever programs would be necessary to meet the housing needs for all federal employees ...” was unenforceable for lack of specificity); Zukoski v. Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Co., 315 F.2d 622, 624-25 (3d Cir.1963) (defendant’s promise that if plaintiff signed a release, he would give him”
1 later decision 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.