In Re Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Nelson v. Donaldson (1951), West Bros. Brick Co. v. City of Alexandria (1937)
2 federal appellate · 46 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · People Ex Rel. Fordham Manor Reformed Church v. Walsh · 2 Smith & H. 70 - Spencer-Sturla Co. v. City of Memphis · Stevens v. Clarke
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The board may have made a mistake in granting the permit to operate the grocery store in this zone. This did not mean, however, that it was subject to a legal duty to enlarge the field of encroachment and thereby magnify the error. In the language of the eminent New York jurist, ‘The question was not whether someone else had1 beeD favored. The question was whether the petitioner had been illegally oppressed’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To authorize upon appeal in specific cases such variance from the terms of the ordinance as will not be contrary to the public interest, where owing to special conditions a literal enforcement of the provisions of the ordinance will result in unnecessary hardship, and so- that the spirit of the ordinance shall be observed and substantial justice done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An Act relating to the powers of cities, with respect to buildings, sites, areas, trades and industries: authorizing the creation of zoning districts, and declaring an emergency””
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.