Parks v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
716 F.2d 646 · 1983
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 7 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987), Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994)
77 federal appellate · 7 district · 12 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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Bishop v. Wood · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The background and experience of plaintiff in his prospective business 2. Affirmative action on the part of plaintiff to engage in the proposed business ... 3. The ability of plaintiff to finance the business and the purchase of equipment and facilities necessary to engage in the business ... 4. The consumation of contracts by plaintiff ...””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'threatened loss or injury cognizable in equity proximately resulting from the alleged antitrust violation,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[o]nce the conditions [were] met the city lack[ed] discretionary powers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.