Anthony v. Franklin County’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 681 · 1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Greenbriar, Ltd. v. City of Alabaster (1989), Spence v. Zimmerman (1989)
15 federal appellate ·
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 Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas · Purcell v. Deli Man, Inc. · Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · Dowdell v. City of Apopka
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deprivation of a property interest for an improper motive and by means that were pretextual, arbitrary and capricious, and ... without any rational basis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a property owner has not suffered a violation of the just compensation clause until the owner has unsuccessfully attempted to obtain just compensation....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]conomic and social legislation is presumed valid if it is rationally related to a legitimate state interest.”
1 later decision 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.