109 Md. App. 692 - White v. Spring’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2020
17 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 Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Williams v. United States · Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. · Belcher v. Government Employees Insurance · Hardesty v. Dunphy
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]riginal zonings (including master planning) and comprehensive rezoning are limited only by the general boundaries of the ... appropriate procedural and due process considerations. A legislative body establishes zoning policy through its adoption of master plans, comprehensive zoning and comprehensive rezoning. So long as (1) the appropriate procedural criteria are met, (2) the due process limitations have been duly addressed, (3) the policy is designed to achieve a valid public purpose, and (4) the police power is not otherwise exceeded, comprehensive zoning and comprehensive rezoning-i.e., the conclusions of the legislative bodies, cannot be a mistake, except where it is proven by substantial evidence that the information relied upon by the legislative entity was wrong, i.e., a mistake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.