Stansberry v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 1285 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale (1998), Greenbriar, Ltd. v. City of Alabaster (1989)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Marchetti 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Zoning provides one of the firmest and most basic of the rights of local control.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Additional definiteness is provided by the fact that the section specifically lists three types of regulated businesses— massage parlors, nude studios, and love parlors — and applies the definition to “any other similar commercial enterprise.” We find that this definition is sufficiently clear and provides adequate warning of the proscribed conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garcia · Mayo v. State“(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to own or operate a Sexually Oriented Commercial Enterprise at a location in the parts of the county outside the corporate limits of a city without a valid permit issued therefor by the Sheriff in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gordon v. State · State v. Garcia
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.