Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. v. City of Monterey’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 1496 · 1990
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 30 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. (1999), Wedges/Ledges of California, Inc. v. City of Phoenix (1994)
64 federal appellate · 30 district · 8 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. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the resubmission of a development plan or the application for a variance from prohibitive regulations may be excused if those actions would be idle or futile.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“motivated [in rejecting a building plan], not by legitimate regulatory concerns, but by improper political pressure from neighbors and other residents of the city to preserve the property as open space.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may need to resubmit modified development proposals that satisfy the local government's objections to the development as initially proposed.”
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.