Rommell v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis

1940

Citation profile

cited by 94 later decisions

states following

January 2008

most recently cited

93 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Munhall v. Inland Wetlands Commission (1992), Sheehan v. Zoning Commission (1977)

93 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Board of Zoning Appeals v. McKinney · Norwalk Street Railway Company's Appeal · Deflumeri v. Sunderland · Brein v. Connecticut Eclectic Examining Board · Malmo's Appeal From County Commissioners

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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[i]n appeals in zoning cases the municipality might no doubt properly do this.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Fasi v. State of Hawaii Public Employment Relations Board · 87 Conn. App. 537 - Avalonbay Communities, Inc. v. Zoning Commission
“As regards appeals from boards or municipal officers, whose functions go no farther than to determine the rights of parties having a direct interest in the determination of the matters *Page 449 before them, as boards for the assessment of benefits and damages, there is no occasion for making the board a party to the proceedings and the citation should run to the municipality concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 39 Conn. Super. Ct. 443 - Board of Education v. State Dept of Education
“[t]he rule concerning appearances . . . is a rule of convenience, and as such should be observed, but it does not preclude recognition by the court of the authority of an attorney who has not formally entered in accordance with its terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Fairfield Res. Man. v. Brookfield Inland, No. 31 86 53 (Mar. 12, 1996)

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.