Josephson v. Planning Board’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably Sheridan v. Planning Board (1969), Murach v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1985)
90 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Low v. Town of Madison · Luery v. Zoning Board · Tyler v. Board of Zoning Appeals · Fox v. Zoning Board of Appeals · Langbein v. Planning Board
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[P]ublic policy requires that members of such public boards cannot be permitted to place themselves in a position in which personal interests may conflict with public duty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The evil lies not in influence improperly exercised but rather in the creation of a situation tending to weaken public confidence and to undermine the sense of security of individual rights which the property owner must feel assured will always exist in the exercise of zoning power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No member of the . . . board of zoning appeals . . . shall participate in the hearing or decision . . . upon any zoning matter ... in which he is directly or indirectly interested in a financial sense . . . .””
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.