Keating v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably West Haven Sound Development Corp. v. City of West Haven (1986), Clark v. Town Council (1958)
53 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 State v. Stoddard · Perrin's App. Bd. of Adjustment's App. · Donnelly v. City of New Haven · People Ex Rel. Schimpff v. Norvell · State v. Van Keegan
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A Legislature, in creating a law complete in itself and designed to accomplish a particular purpose, may expressly authorize an administrative agency to fill up the details by prescribing rules and regulations for the operation and enforcement of the law. In order to render admissible such delegation of legislative power, however, it is necessary that the statute declare a legislative policy, establish primary standards for carrying it out, or lay down an intelligible principle to which the administrative officer or body must conform, with a proper regard for the protection of the public interests and with such degree of certainty as the nature of the case permits, and enjoin a procedure under which, by appeal or otherwise, both public interests and private rights shall have due consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no comprehensive plan prescribed and no assurance of uniformity of operation. . . . The discretion imposed in the board is so wide that it is indefinable. . . . There is nothing in the relevant statutes or ordinances to control the whims or prejudices of its members.”
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.