Acierno v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 970 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Sameric Corporation Of Delaware, Inc. v. City Of Philadelphia (1998), Artway v. Attorney General of New Jersey (1996)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Siegert v. Gilley · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · MacDonald, Sommer & Frates v. Yolo County
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a constitutional challenge to a land-use decision is not ripe unless state authorities are given an opportunity to arrive at a final, definitive position regarding how they will apply the regulations at issue to the particular land in question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although we generally decline to address arguments for the first time on appeal, `ripeness affects [the] justiciability' of plaintiffs claims, and we will address it here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court has recognized that considerations of ripeness are sufficiently important that we are required to raise the issue sua sponte even though the parties do not.”
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.