Erdelyi v. A O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 61 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Fullman v. Graddick (1984), Powderly v. Schweiker (1983)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Russell v. Landrieu · Jacobson v. Hannifin · Geraldine C. Medina v. Warren B. Rudman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wJhere state law gives the issuing authority broad discretion to grant or deny license applications in a closely regulated field, initial applicants do not have a property right in such licenses protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under [California] state law Erdelyi is entitled to mandamus from a state court if her claim that O'Brien had a policy of denying all applications is true.”
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.