Pearson v. City of Grand Blanc’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 1211 · 1992
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. (1999), Zahra v. Town of Southold (1995)
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Daniels v. Williams · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Griswold v. State of Connecticut
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'willful and unreasoning action, without consideration and in disregard of the facts or circumstances of the case.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the] plaintiff claims that the zoning applied to his land constitutes a taking of his property without just compensation in contravention of the Fifth Amendment, the remedy sought being the just compensation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the very existence of an allegedly unlawful zoning action, without more, makes a substantive due process claim ripe for federal adjudication”
4 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.