Ex Parte Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 1979 · most notably Forde v. City of Miami Beach (1941), 77 So. 2d 428 - City of Miami Beach v. 8701 Collins Ave. (1954)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Dutton Phosphate Co. v. Priest · In re Seizure of 7 Barrels of Wine · State Ex Rel. Helseth v. Dubose
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We therefore hold that the Zoning Ordinance, supra, is valid, but in its application to the building of the petitioner the same is on this record unreasonable and unenforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Sails“The ordinance is assailed here on the ground that it is arbitrary, discriminatory, unreasonable, unconstitutional and void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Sails
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.