Southern Cooperative Development Fund v. Driggers’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 1347 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Fred B. Shelton Iii, and John Paul Jones, Cross v. City of College Station, Cross-Appellants (1986), Littlefield v. City of Afton (1986)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · State of Washington Seattle Title Trust Co v. Roberge · Hornsby v. Allen · 77 So. 2d 428 - City of Miami Beach v. 8701 Collins Ave.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The preamble contains no standards with respect to subdivision approval. It merely sets forth the underlying purpose for enacting the Subdivision Regulations. The language in the preamble cannot serve as an independent source of authority for disapproving plats. This would permit the Commission to hold in reserve unpublished requirements capable of general application for occasional use as the Commission deems desirable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.