Creative Environments, Inc. v. Estabrook’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 822 · 1982
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 77 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 311 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Aulson v. Blanchard (1996), Brady v. Town of Colchester (1988)
102 federal appellate · 77 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Warth v. Seldin · Parratt v. Taylor
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 311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“its legal authority in some manner, often for some allegedly perverse (from the developer's point of view) reason. It is not enough simply to give these state law claims constitutional labels such as”
66 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“property is not denied without due process simply because a local planning board rejects a proposed development for erroneous reasons or makes demands which arguably exceed its authority under the relevant state statutes.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] different situation may be presented in some instances, particularly in the realm of equal protection, involving gross abuse of power, invidious discrimination, or fundamentally unfair procedures.”
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.