Fred B. Shelton Iii, and John Paul Jones, Cross v. City of College Station, Cross-Appellants’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 475 · 1986
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Brady v. Town of Colchester (1988), Zahra v. Town of Southold (1995)
88 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 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. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the governmental body could have had no legitimate reason for its decision.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of ... infringement of fundamental interests, our review of these quasi-legislative decisions is confined to whether the decisions were 'arbitrary and capricious.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'must convince the court that the legislative facts on which the [decision] is apparently based could not reasonably be conceived to be true by the governmental decisionmaker.'”
5 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.