Devito v. Pearsall’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 1971 · most notably 127 Cal. App. 2d 442 - City of Los Angeles v. Gage (1954), County of San Diego v. McClurken (1951)
41 state decisions — followed in 10 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 State v. Town of Nutley · Frank J. Durkin Lumber Co. v. Fitzsimmons · Conaway v. City of Atlantic City & Pacific Garage Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The care with which the legislature limited the application of the principle of non-conforming use and the restrictive language with which it authorized restoration and repair are, we think, cogent manifestations of an intent opposite to the wide expansion for which argument is now made.””
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.