Walnut Properties, Inc. v. City of Whittier’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 1102 · 1988
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 34 - Robinson v. City of Seattle (1992), Topanga Press, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (1993)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Younger v. Harris · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Vandygriff v. Phillips
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the terms of the ordinance in question, an estimation of total available acreage is next to meaningless. This is not a case in which a greater amount of acreage would necessarily allow a greater number of sites for adult businesses. Instead, this ordinance imposes a 1,000-foot separation requirement between any two adult businesses, thereby preventing such businesses from clustering within a given area. The number of sites available to adult businesses under the ordinance, therefore, depends, not so much on the total amount of acreage available under the zoning scheme, but on how that acreage is dispersed throughout the City.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) ongoing state judicial proceedings; (2) implication of an important state interest in the proceedings; and (3) an adequate opportunity to raise federal questions in the proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To hold ... that there are adequate alternatives available for expression of this sort would make a mockery of First Amendment protections and would render meaningless the Supreme Court's admonition that an ordinance must not `effectively den[y] ... a reasonable opportunity to open and operate an adult theater within the city.' Renton, 475 U.S. at 53-54 [89 L.Ed.2d at pp. 41-42], 106 S.Ct. at 932.”
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.