Kiska v. Skrensky’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably Forest Construction Co. v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1967), Reynolds v. Soffer (1981)
39 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 Fitzgerald v. Merard Holding Co. · Town of Newington v. Mazzoccoli · Brous v. Smith · Abbadessa v. Board of Zoning Appeals · Rathbun v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should be realized that while there is a definite and harmonious relationship between planning and zoning, as is evidenced by the statutory provision, * * that one commission can do both, there does not seem to be any logical reason why `zoning' should be used when `planning' is meant. There is a distinction as well as a difference between them. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““While there is a definite and harmonious relationship between ‘planning ’ and ‘zoning’, there is a distinction between them, ‘zoning’ being primarily concerned with use of property.””
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.