Sandblom v. Corbin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Merrill (1983), Campbell v. Westdahl (1985)
51 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 City of Mesa v. Killingsworth · Hart v. Bayless Investment & Trading Company · 34 Cal. 2d 614 - Essick v. City of Los Angeles · Nesbit v. City of Albuquerque · Podol v. Jacobs
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a Board of Supervisors enacts a zoning ordinance or amendment thereto, it acts in a legislative capacity. On the other hand, the issuance of a special use permit is generally recognized as an administrative act, because, even though the permit may authorize a change in the property’s use, such use is already sanctioned by the provisions of the existing ordinance upon approval of the proper administrative authorities. As a result, the public is not affected to as great a degree by the issuance of these permits as they would be in cases of changes in zoning, because they are already on notice that these special uses are permissible by administrative decree.”
2 later decisions 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.