Thompson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Krupp v. Krupp (1967), State v. Baldwin (1981)
6 district · 86 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 DAL MASO v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS · Clark v. The Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Washington · Hazen v. Lyndonyille National Bank · Vermont Motor Co. v. Monk · Hammonds, Inc. v. Flanders
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus, the State has decreed that the imposition of zoning regulations shall be accomplished: 1. When the selectmen are authorized by the voters to propose regulations in accordance with the comprehensive plan, 2. the selectmen have prepared and adopted such a plan pursuant to the statutory procedure required, and 3. upon proper warning the regulations designed to execute the plan are approved by the legal voters of the town at town meeting.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has long adhered to the `deeprooted principle of law that the delegate of power from the sovereign cannot without permission recommit to another agent or agency the trust imposed upon its judgment and discretion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the relative convenience or inconvenience, the relative injury sought to be cured as compared with the hardship of injunctive relief.'”
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.