No. 89-15214’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2019
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles · Nollan v. California Coastal Commission · Lake Country Estates, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency · MacDonald, Sommer & Frates v. Yolo County
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“claim of estoppel against the government rests not on Constitutional norms of fairness but on broader norms of equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it did not make applicable the entire panoply of federal administrative and substantive standards.”
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.