Russell v. Landrieu’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1037 · 1980
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Western Mining Council v. Watt (1981), Gordon v. National Youth Work Alliance (1982)
35 federal appellate · 15 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 Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Warth v. Seldin · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Perry v. Sindermann
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)f disposition of the property as low income housing is not feasible, then HUD has no obligation to dispose of the property in this manner.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Pierce · Lee v. Kemp“a legitimate claim of entitlement created and defined by an independent source, such as state or federal law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family”
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.