Haskell v. Washington Township’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 1266 · 1988
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Walker v. Thompson (2002), Pearson v. City of Grand Blanc (1992)
65 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen local zoning officials do more than adopt prospective, legislative-type rules and take the next step into the area of enforcement”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“zoning is ordinarily a legislative activity”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the underlying purpose of zoning activity is to establish general policy, then it is legislative ... [but if it] `single[s] out specifiable individuals and affect[s] them differently from others', it is administrative”
2 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.