Chiplin Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Lebanon’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 1524 · 1983
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 37 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Chongris v. Board of Appeals of Andover (1987), Amsden v. Moran (1990)
60 federal appellate · 37 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 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))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Bell v. Hood · Hagans v. Lavine
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere bad faith refusal to follow state law in such local administrative matters simply does not amount to a deprivation of due process where the state courts are available to correct the error.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he claim that denial of a permit was improperly motivated, unsupported by an allegation of the deprivation of a specific constitutional right, simply raises a matter of local concern, properly and fully reviewable in the state courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“conventional planning dispute--at least when not tainted with fundamental procedural irregularity, racial animus, or the like-- ... does not implicate the Constitution.”
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.