Rowatti v. Gonchar’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Sica v. Board of Adjustment of Tp. of Wall (1992), Smart SMR of New York, Inc. v. Borough of Fair Lawn Board of Adjustment (1998)
49 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Holt v. United States · Close v. Kordulak Bros.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] building designed [for] or occupied by more than one (1) family.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Board's factual conclusions are entitled to great weight and, like those of an administrative body, ought not be disturbed unless there is insufficient evidence to support them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to read them so as to make sense of them, and then to apply the ordinance in accordance with the intent of the municipality.”
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.