Herrington v. County of Sonoma’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 567 · 1988
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale (1998), Greenbriar, Ltd. v. City of Alabaster (1989)
72 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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
Relies on Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles · MacDonald, Sommer & Frates v. Yolo County · Herrington v. County of Sonoma · Kinzli v. City of Santa Cruz
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It follows from the nature of a regulatory takings claim that an essential prerequisite to its assertion is a final and authoritative determination of the type and intensity of development legally permitted on the subject property. A court cannot determine whether regulation has gone ‘too far’ unless it knows how far the regulation goes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'final definitive [decision] regarding how [Del City] will apply the regulations at issue'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e do not believe that the Herringtons' development application was formally complete”
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.