Strain v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Frito-Lay, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1988), Builders Service Corp. v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1988)
161 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Nectow v. City of Cambridge · State of Washington Seattle Title Trust Co v. Roberge · Caroline Dobbins v. City of Los Angeles · Dowsey v. Village of Kensington
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Zoning regulations are adopted in the exercise of the police power of the state and to be valid must have a rational relation to the health, safety, welfare and prosperity of the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We do not now decide that the presence of all is necessary, but merely point out that it is advisable that they should attend.”
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.