Wright v. Preseault’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2008
22 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Town of Westford v. Kilburn · Graves v. Town of Waitsfield · Eno v. City of Burlington · In re Trust Estate of Harris
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, nowhere has it been shown that the building inspector was the administrative officer who has been appointed by the planning commission pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4442. Absent such showing, it cannot be said that the building inspector was the administrative officer and thus charged with the enforcement of the zoning ordinance of the City of Burlington pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 91, subchapter 7.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Preseault v. Wheel
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.