Smith v. Winhall Planning Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably In Re Handy (2000), In Re Duncan (1990)
47 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 Thompson v. Smith · Kalakowski v. John A. Russell Corp. · Ben Lomond, Inc. v. City of Idaho Falls · Corcoran v. Village of Bennington · DeWitt v. TOWN OF BRATTLEBORO ZONING BD. OF ADJUST.
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.
“is . . . the more practical one to administer. It serves to avoid a great deal, at least, of extended litigation. It makes for greater certainty in the law and its administration. It avoids much of the protracted maneuvering which too often characterizes zoning controversies in our communities. It is, we feel, the more equitable rule in long run application, especially where no amendment is pending at the time of the application, as here.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The regulations as adopted may indeed be inconsistent with the Town Plan, but the total consistency upon which this argument is predicated is not a legal requirement. The plan is a general guideline to the legislative body, an overall guide to community development. Partial implementation is not unusual; the specific implementation is the part adopted in the zoning regulations. The regulations control the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Molgano
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.