Geer v. Susman’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2009
11 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 Van DeVegt v. Board of County Commissioners · MacArthur v. Presto · MacArthur v. Martelli · MacArthur v. Sierota · Downes v. McClellan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjo constitute arbitrary or capricious exercise of discretion it must appear that 'By exercising its discretion in such manner after a consideration of evidence before it as clearly to indicate that its action is based on conclusions from the evidence such that reasonable men fairly and honestly considering the evidence must reach contrary conclusions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. J.S. v. Chambers“Such evidence shows the need of the applicant for a license, but not, convincingly, the requirement of the community for it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Geer v. Stathopulos
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.