Ward v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 district · 207 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Kramer v. BD. OF ADJUST., SEA GIRT. (1965), Kozesnik v. Township of Montgomery (1957)
4 district · 207 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 Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Carlson v. Landon · American Power & Light Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exigencies of modern government have increasingly dictated the use of general rather than minutely detailed standards in regulatory enactments under the police power.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“without substantial detriment to the public good and will not substantially impair the intent and purpose of the zone plan and zoning ordinance.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in particular cases and for special reasons”
5 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.